From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80580 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2019 17:45:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 79933 invoked by uid 89); 26 Feb 2019 17:45:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-26.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_0,GIT_PATCH_1,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:45:35 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61AF2369D2; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from f29-4.lan (ovpn-117-11.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.117.11]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DDA15D6B3; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:45:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Document fact that mininum Python version is now 2.6 Message-ID: <20190226104533.601164f1@f29-4.lan> In-Reply-To: <20190219145110.03bccce6@f29-4.lan> References: <20190219145110.03bccce6@f29-4.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00444.txt.bz2 gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Note minimum Python version. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Configure Options): Document minimum python version. diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index bfb023e7bb..e2f1907db4 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ FreeBSD/riscv riscv*-*-freebsd* * Python API + ** GDB no longer supports Python versions less than 2.6. + ** The gdb.Inferior type has a new 'progspace' property, which is the program space associated to that inferior. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 7b2e5578bd..8b61cc1ba3 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -35975,7 +35975,7 @@ libpython is present and found at configure time.) Python makes @value{GDBN} scripting much more powerful than the restricted CLI scripting language. If your host does not have Python installed, you can find it on `http://www.python.org/download/'. The oldest version -of Python supported by GDB is 2.4. The optional argument @var{python} +of Python supported by GDB is 2.6. The optional argument @var{python} is used to find the Python headers and libraries. It can be either the name of a Python executable, or the name of the directory in which Python is installed.