gdb doesn't work well with qtcreator

[HU Dong]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>
> 09.08.2012, 15:50, "HU Dong" <itechbear at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,all!
>>     I just installed devel/qtcreator from port. Everything seemed to
>> work fine except the debugger. At first I set it to /usr/bin/gdb, it
>> simply crashed when I started debugging, with a dialog reporting "The
>> gdb process crashed." Then I installed devel/gdb and set the debugger
>> to /usr/local/bin/gdb, qtcreator reported that "Application process
>> could not be stopped:The program is not being run." and "Cannot
>> continue debugged process:The program is not being run."
>>     I've spent much time searching on the internet, but found nothing
>> helpful. Did anyone run into the same problem?
>>
>>     Env: FreeBSD  9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12
>> 01:47:53 UTC 2012
>> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> Which version og gdb are you using? Qt Creator officially requires gdb >= 7.2,
> and may have issues with earlier versions.
>
> Maybe it's worthwhile to ask on qt-creator at qt-project.org too.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Konstantin

I've tested both gdb 6.1.1 and 7.4.1_4, but with no luck.

I suspect that this problem is kind of freebsd-specific, cause I
didn't find similar problems reported on the internet.

HU Dong