Re: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and GNAT GPL 2012

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:

> On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:26:34 PM UTC-7, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> On 9/17/12 10:20 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> 
>> >> Mine seems to have codesign issue:
>> >> Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 11280: (os/kern)
>> >> failure (0x5).
>> >>   (please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))
>> 
>> > Wow. That's going to be a problem--on top of the other gdb/Ada/OS
>> > X issues we've had / are having.
>> 
>> http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwin
>
> Thanks for that link, Georg.
>
> Today's (yesterday's) update to Lion, 10.7.5, brings Gatekeeper to
> Lion (not just for Mountain Lion any more). So if I update to 10.7.5,
> I gather that I can expect gdb to stop working. But if I follow the
> instructions on the linked page, I presume that gdb will continue to
> work, even if it is not freshly compiled but is e.g. from GPL 2011.

I just updated to 10.7.5.

The gdb from GNAT GPL 2012 seemed to work fine: it's

 $ ls -l /opt/gnat-gpl-2012/bin/gdb
 -rwxr-sr-x@ 1 simon  procmod  5479472 14 May 15:25 /opt/gnat-gpl-2012/bin/gdb

/usr/bin/gdb, on the other hand, isn't setgid procmod and (the first
time I ran it) put up a dialog box asking for my password.

I have /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.taskgated.plist set up to
run taskgated with -p -s.