Nothing works on Debian Bullseye unless I disable version limitations

[TheQuantumPhysicist]

I don't know what's wrong with gdb in Debian Bullseye... it just keeps saying that python isn't supported. I moved on and compiled gdb myself.

Then I tried to use this repo, and this is my ~/.gdbinit:

python
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/share/gcc/python')
sys.path.insert(1, '/home/username/Boost-Pretty-Printer')

import boost
boost.register_printers(boost_version=(1,5,5))

from libstdcxx.v6.printers import register_libstdcxx_printers
register_libstdcxx_printers(None)

end

Then when I run gdb, I noticed that always, no matter what version I put up there (even if I don't specify a version, I keep getting the error No boost printers are available for boost version x.y.z. So, I went ahead to util.py and change this line:

supported_printers = [printer for printer in boost_printer_list
                          if printer.min_supported_version <= boost_version <= printer.max_supported_version]

to

supported_printers = boost_printer_list

So now, there's no filtering... and it just works.

I don't really know why the filters are just filtering everything. But there seems to be a problem there.

[bjodah]

I think this is simply the library is perhaps a bit overly cautious and makes no promises on versions newer than the blessed version given here:

Boost-Pretty-Printer/boost/utils.py

Line 781 in 60da4b4

last_supported_boost_version = (1, 73, 0)

I simply changed this tuple to (1, 999, 0).