Arch Linux

glib2 2.34.3-1

Description:
The glib2 package installs gdb scripts that are incompatible with our gdb version. It generates import errors when debugging binaries linked to glib2.

Example gdb output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3400.3-gdb.py", line 9, in <module>
from gobject import register
File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in <module>
import gdb.backtrace
ImportError: No module named backtrace

Gdb doesn't document these backtrace APIs http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-API.html
A simple solution is not to install these python scripts

$ pacman -Ql glib2 | grep /usr/share/gdb/
glib2 /usr/share/gdb/
glib2 /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/
glib2 /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/
glib2 /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/
glib2 /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.3400.3-gdb.py
glib2 /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3400.3-gdb.py

A possible patch:

--- PKGBUILD 2013-03-13 23:32:10.768152428 +0100
+++ PKGBUILD_ 2013-03-13 23:31:59.008266388 +0100
@@ -32,2 +32,3 @@
make completiondir=/usr/share/bash-completion/completions DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+ rm -rf $pkgdir/usr/share/gdb/