compile_gdb.sh

#!/bin/bash
: '
Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Korcan Karaokçu <korcankaraokcu@gmail.com>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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'

# This script installs a specific gdb version locally, the default installation script doesn't need this anymore, you can use it as a fallback if system gdb is being problematic
# After installing a local gdb, you must specify its binary location via the Settings->Debug

echo "This script will install GDB locally in the gdb_pince folder"
echo "To see the available GDB versions, visit -> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/"
read -r -p "Enter the GDB version number (e.g., 14.1): " version_number

GDB_VERSION="gdb-$version_number"

if [ -z "$NUM_MAKE_JOBS" ]; then
    NUM_MAKE_JOBS=$(lscpu -p=core | uniq | awk '!/#/' | wc -l)
    MAX_NUM_MAKE_JOBS=8
    if [ "$NUM_MAKE_JOBS" -gt "$MAX_NUM_MAKE_JOBS" ]; then # set an upper limit to prevent Out-Of-Memory
        NUM_MAKE_JOBS=$MAX_NUM_MAKE_JOBS
    fi
    if ! echo "$NUM_MAKE_JOBS" | grep -Eq '^[0-9]+$'; then # fallback
        NUM_MAKE_JOBS=$MAX_NUM_MAKE_JOBS
    fi
fi

mkdir -p gdb_pince
cd gdb_pince || exit

# clean the directory if another installation happened
rm -rf "$GDB_VERSION"

if [ ! -e "${GDB_VERSION}".tar.gz ] ; then
    wget "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/${GDB_VERSION}.tar.gz" || exit
fi
tar -zxvf "${GDB_VERSION}".tar.gz
cd "$GDB_VERSION" || exit
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "DISCLAIMER"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "If you're not on debian or a similar distro with the 'apt' package manager the follow will not work if you don't have gcc and g++ installed"
echo "Please install them manually for this to work, this issue will be addressed at a later date"

sudo apt-get install python3-dev libgmp3-dev libmpc-dev

CC=gcc CXX=g++ ./configure --prefix="$(pwd)" --with-python=python3 && make -j"$NUM_MAKE_JOBS" MAKEINFO=true && sudo make -C gdb install

if [ ! -e bin/gdb ] ; then
    echo "Failed to install GDB, restart the installation process"
    exit 1
fi

# In case of python part of gdb installation fails
sudo cp -R gdb/data-directory/* share/gdb/