[fpc-pascal] Build FP Ide with GDB support

[Jan Jelowicki]

Hi to all, 

The freepascal IDE included in standard 2.0.4 RPM has no debugger 
support. There are also *.tgz binaries in FreePascal repositories, 
and they contain GDB-enabled fp executable. Unfortunately, one of 
the machines I would like do use for debugging is too old for that 
binaries -- it is RedHat 9 with glibc 2.3.2, while precompiled fp 
requires at least 2.3.4.

Trying to make FreePascal IDE from 2.0.4 sources I got a message 
from the linker:
"LibGDB was not found, IDE has no Debugger support". 
I have no libgdb.a in my system, and I am afraid that no conforming 
package provides it.

glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7.2.legacy
gdb-5.3post-0.20021129.18

Yes, I know they are very old but now I cannot upgrade this machine, 
it has to work stable with all its software.

How should I obtain or generate libgdb.a in order to make fp IDE with gdb support?


With regards,

                                                   Jan Je/lowicki
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Department of Mathematics                      Katedra Matematyki
University of Life Sciences              Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy
                          Wroc/law, POLAND
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