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by TeMPOraL 587 days ago
Where? How?

Last time I tried to build GDB from source, which was some two months ago, it wasn't in any way simple. GDB comes embedded in some GNU binutils repo, instructions to build it in isolation weren't obvious.

I ended up creating a new VM with a more recent Linux distro, that came with newer GDB, and migrating everything I'm working on to it, because that was much easier than building GDB from source.

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The GDB source is available as a standalone package: https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/download/
I'm not sure where you've been looking, but source tarballs have been available from both gnu.org and the GDB website for over 20 years, with every major release going back 30 years available for download.