“please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8)” - How to get gdb installed with homebrew code signed?

Question

I\'m under osx 10.8.4 and have installed gdb 7.5.1 with homebrew (motivation get a new gdb with new features such as --with-python etc... )

Long story short when I

Answer 1

I can recommend to follow this gist: https://gist.github.com/gravitylow/fb595186ce6068537a6e9da6d8b5b96d#file-codesign_gdb-md

With trick to overcome: unknown error = -2,147,414,007 during Certificate Creation described here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/309123

Notes:

Path for gdb installed as homebrew package should be something like: /usr/local/Cellar/gdb/9.2/bin/gdb

And csrutil enable --without debug will cause a message about requesting unsupported configuration, like here: https://totalfinder.binaryage.com/system-integrity-protection

Test:

○ → sw_vers -productVersion
10.13.6

○ → gdb ./a.out
GNU gdb (GDB) 9.2
...
Thread 3 hit Breakpoint 1, main () at main.c:14
14          data_t d = {0};