[Llvm-bgq-discuss] lldb

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

I think we’re on 4.4.x I asked for a newer gdb and was met with some
grumbling and whining about having to recompile stuff. I’ll see about
installing one myself locally.

Ta

JB

On 04/03/14 19:38, "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

>What version of gdb are you using? You might want to try using the gdb
>that comes with the gcc 4.7 toolchain, it is much newer.
>
> -Hal
>
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John A. Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
>> Cc: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:36:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] lldb
>> 
>> Hal,
>> 
>> OK. I recompiled everything of mine over the last few days, and now
>> gdb
>> refuses to load any debug symbols. I wondered if they were
>> incompatible
>> and I had inadvertently been picking up the wrong ones before. I’ll
>> try
>> again and double check all my debug settings
>> 
>> Ta
>> 
>> JB
>> 
>> On 04/03/14 19:15, "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> >John,
>> >
>> >I've never tried it, and I don't even know if lldb supports PowerPC
>> >in
>> >general. You can always extract the source and apply the patches
>> >from the
>> >source RPMs and try it. However, you might be stuck with gdb for the
>> >time
>> >being.
>> >
>> > -Hal
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "John A. Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>> >> To: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:12:19 PM
>> >> Subject: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] lldb
>> >> 
>> >> Are there any pages out there describing how one sets up lldb to
>> >> go
>> >> alongside a bbq clang.
>> >> I tried building lldb from source, but it wants to know where the
>> >> llvm source is, and since I’m using the bbq clang I don’t have the
>> >> source (I wanted to avoid compiling everything from scratch). I
>> >> wonder if there’s an lldb binary for ppc out there anywhere.
>> >> (Since I’m targeting Io nodes I’m hoping it’s more feasible to use
>> >> lldb than it would be on the compute nodes)
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks
>> >> 
>> >> JB
>> >> 
>> >> 
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>
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>Hal Finkel
>Assistant Computational Scientist
>Leadership Computing Facility
>Argonne National Laboratory