Clicking "Debug->Watches" in the IDE produces the error "No debugger support available

[graeme]

Steps to reproduce:
Clicking for instance "Debug->Watches" in the IDE produces the error "No debugger
support available"

Based on the discussion in the Debian bug, debug support was disabled because newer versions of gdb were incompatible with fpc.

This issue is reproducible with fpc version 2.6.0-7 in Ubuntu Raring, and seems to have been present since 7.04

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Thank you for your bug report.

[Isaque Alves (isaquealves)]

This is happening with fp in ubuntu gutsy too...
fp 2.0.4-5 -> if i try to debug, add watches, it shows "no debbuger support available"...

[ironwit (ironwit)]

confirmed on ubuntu 9.10 (beta) + default fpc and default gdb for this dist

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Made the description a bit more elaborate and mentions this is still reproducible in Ubuntu Raring.

[ManDrive (roman-romul)]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528855 - this bug in Debian.

[ManDrive (roman-romul)]

There is new info in Debian for bug. There are all patches for gdb in Free Pascal IDE.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I have good news: as mentioned in the Debian bug report, this issue is fixed in fpc 3.0.4+dfsg-14 which will be part of the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04. While I don't have any Pascal code lying around, I have been able to verify that I no longer get an error message and features like "Watches" seem to work. I'm therefore marking this as fix released.

The Debian bug report contains some more details on the fix itself. It might be possible to patch this into previous versions of Ubuntu, so if this is something you'd like, please take a look at the SRU Procedure (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure).