Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of DevWikiGettingABackTrace

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Jul 14, 2023, 6:53:14 PM (10 months ago)

Author:

robe

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DevWikiGettingABackTrace

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 = Prerequisites =
 
-This tutorial assumes that you are running a POSIX-based operating system such as Linux, Solaris, MacOS etc. If you are running Windows then you can obtain a similar result once you have installed the required MingW components (you can download precompiled gdb 7.0 for MingW from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GNU%20Source-Level] and then extract contents into your c:\mingw folder ). You will need to make sure that gdb (GNU debugger) has been installed on your system; to verify this, simply type "gdb -v" and check the output. If gdb is installed, you'll see something like this:
+This tutorial assumes that you are running a POSIX-based operating system such as Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS, MSYS2, Cygwin etc. If you are running Windows then you can obtain a similar result once you have installed the required MingW/Msys2 components which are generally part of [https://www.msys2.org/ Msys2] or can be installed via Pacman package manager shipped with msys2. You will need to make sure that gdb (GNU debugger) has been installed on your system; to verify this, simply type "gdb -v" and check the output. If gdb is installed, you'll see something like this:
 
 {{{
-GNU gdb 6.8-debian
-Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU gdb (GDB) 8.1
+Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
-This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
-There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
-and "show warranty" for details.
-This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
 }}}
-
-
 = TIP =
 The most meaningful backtrace can be achieved by working against a postgresql compiled with debug fiels.  To build postgresql