Re: GDB on Mac OS

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> On Aug 12, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Jonas Maebe <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Paul_Koning wrote on Wed, 12 Aug 2015:
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>> On Aug 11, 2015, at 11:12 PM, Joel Brobecker <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> - for actual debugging of a live inferior, the debugger needs
>>>   to be codesigned - try with a simple example first to see
>>>   if you can run a program and break somewhere.
>> 
>> So is that the reason why so many tests fail?  I know of the codesigning requirement from actually using the debugger (or rather, answering the prompt for my password, which is the alternative).
> 
> It's not the alternative, both are required. You won't even get to the password prompt without a codesigned binary.

That’s not what I found.  When I created my signing cert correctly, and signed gdb, it controls the inferior without giving me a developer popup dialog.  

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>> Where would I look for information on how to do this?
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> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwin
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> In particular also note the addendum regarding taskgated: you also have to add the -p option to that LaunchDaemon plist and reboot before gdb will work for non-root users on OS X 10.9 and 10.10.

From the way I read the Wiki page, the -p option is an alternative (and less desirable) to signing the image.  When I signed it, it worked without the -p.

	paul
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