Kdevelop gdb error "You need gdb 7.0.0 or higher."

Question

When trying to debug in kedevelop I'm getting the error:

You need gdb 7.0.0 or higher. You are using: Registered pretty printers for UE classes

but I have a higher version than that:

$ gdb --version GNU gdb (Debian 10.1-1.7) 10.1.90.20210103-git Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I do have UE built but I'm not actually using it. The project is just the simple hello world simple cmake C template. I don't know what's going on or why it's putting this up.

Answer 1

I've finally found an answer in an odd chinese blog using google translate. Link to Blog. In summary it seems like the act of building Unreal Engine source creates a gdb config file in home called .gdbinit. And this is where the problem lies.

Simply moving the config file and restarting kdevelop solves the problem:

$ mv .gdbinit .gdbinit_ue

This way you can reinstate it if you ever need to play around with UE again.