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Document fact that mininum Python version is now 2.6
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:45:33 -0700
- Subject: Document fact that mininum Python version is now 2.6
- References: <20190219145110.03bccce6@f29-4.lan>
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.