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[binutils-gdb/gdb-8.3-branch] Document fact that mininum Python version is now 2.6
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 27 Feb 2019 18:50:53 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb/gdb-8.3-branch] Document fact that mininum Python version is now 2.6
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7008bd663c7b314d9177044bb70fd39d4103e2c4
commit 7008bd663c7b314d9177044bb70fd39d4103e2c4
Author: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Feb 21 17:22:13 2019 -0700
Document fact that mininum Python version is now 2.6
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Note minimum Python version.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Configure Options): Document minimum python
version.
Diff:
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
gdb/NEWS | 2 ++
gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 2 +-
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index acf787b..0cf5e56 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-02-27 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Note minimum Python version.
+
2019-02-27 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* version.in: Set GDB version number to 8.2.90.DATE-git.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 635520e..c5ef13e 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/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 7a1add5..a5d1c21 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-02-27 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (Configure Options): Document minimum python
+ version.
+
2019-02-26 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
* python.texi (Values From Inferior): Document second form
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 7b2e557..8b61cc1 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.