Solved gdb missing dependency

[lbol]

I am on a FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 system. When starting gdb I get am error message

# gdb
ld-elf32.so.1: Shared object "libreadline.so.6" not found, required by "gdb"

I have /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.8 installed from package readline-8.0.0
What would be the right step to solve the dependency issue?

 

[T-Daemon]

Same system, no problem here. I'm running package devel/gdb, version gdb-8.2.1_3, from latest package repository.

 

[shkhln]

Is that an i386 gdb binary? How so?

What would be the right step to solve the dependency issue?

You need to stop doing whatever you are doing.

 

[George]

1. A symlink?


2. pkg search libreadline shows readline-7.0.5

pkg search gdb

gdb-8.2.1_1                    GNU GDB of newer version than comes with the system

It has libreadline.so.7 as dependency.



Where did you get your readline-8 package from?

 

[T-Daemon]

2. pkg search libreadline shows readline-7.0.5

readline-7.0.5 is a dependency for package gdb-8.2.1_1 from quarterly package repository.
readline-8.0.0 is a dependency for package gdb-8.2.1_3 from latest package repository (Edit) or port.

 

[lbol]

I just installed gdb from packages. This solved my problem. I was still using an obviously old version of gdb that came with the system a long time ago.
Thanks for all the quick replies