gdb doesn't work well with qtcreator

HU Dong itechbear at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 14:08:44 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:10 PM, HU Dong <itechbear at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Luca Pizzamiglio <
> l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi HU,
>> I tested QtCreator on a 8-STABLE i386 machine and a 9-STABLE amd64
>> machine.
>> In both cases I'm not able to reproduce the error....
>>
>> Regards,
>> Luca
>>
>> On 08/14/12 02:29, HU Dong wrote:
>> > waiting for your furthur reply.
>> >
>> > B.R.
>> > HU Dong
>> > On Monday, August 13, 2012, Luca Pizzamiglio
>> > <l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de <mailto:l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de>>
>> wrote:
>> >  > Hi HU,
>> >  >
>> >  > I tried QtCreator 2.5.0 (Based on Qt 4.8.2 - 32 bit) on my 8-STABLE
>> > i386 system.
>> >  >
>> >  > gdb works good (only one worning about inappropriate ioctl for
>> > terminal device), but it works as expected.
>> >  >
>> >  > If I've time, I could try on a 9-STABLE system.
>> >  >
>> >  > Regards,
>> >  > Luca
>> >  >
>> >  > On 08/13/12 10:23, HU Dong wrote:
>> >  >>
>> >  >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Luca Pizzamiglio
>> >  >> <l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de <mailto:l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de>
>> > <mailto:l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de
>> > <mailto:l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de>>> wrote:
>> >  >>
>> >  >>     Hi.
>> >  >>     Could you provide a simple repro-case? Is your application a
>> >  >>     multi-thread one?
>> >  >>
>> >  >>     I'm using gdb 7.4.1_4 with KDevelop without problem, but my
>> >  >>     applications are not Qt based...
>> >  >>
>> >  >>     Regards,
>> >  >>     Luca
>> >  >>
>> >  >>
>> >  >>     On 08/09/12 14:02, HU Dong wrote:
>> >  >>
>> >  >>         On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Konstantin Tokarev
>> >  >>         <annulen at yandex.ru <mailto:annulen at yandex.ru>
>> > <mailto:annulen at yandex.ru <mailto:annulen at yandex.ru>>> wrote:
>> >  >>
>> >  >>
>> >  >>
>> >  >>             09.08.2012, 15:50, "HU Dong" <itechbear at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:itechbear at gmail.com>
>> >  >>             <mailto:itechbear at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:qt-creator at qt-project.org>
>> >  >>             <mailto:qt-creator at qt-project.org
>> > <mailto: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
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>> >  >>
>> >  >>
>> >  >>
>> >  >> It's not application-related. I tried "hello,world!" and the problem
>> >  >> still existed. The problem happened in Qt Creator, not kdevelop.
>> Anyway,
>> >  >> thank you!
>> >  >>
>> >  >
>> >  >
>> >
>> > --
>>
>>
>
> It's kinda weird. I deleted 2.5.0, and tried installing 2.0 with pkg_add
> -r command. The debugger worked.
>
> I've submitted debugger log to qt creator bugreport site, hoping they
> could find some clues. Thank you very much!
>
> However I've switched to kdevelop and it's OK. Thank you!
>
>
>
I found that when I chose to create a CMake-Build project instead of
QMake-Build one, the debugger worked... I don't know what's the difference,
but after being confused for sevral days, it finally works...

-- 
B.R.
HU Dong


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