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http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.0.1.tar.bz2

gdb-7.0.1-use_installed_readline.patch

Compile the package:

rm -rf readline &&
patch -p1 -i ../gdb-7.0.1-use_installed_readline.patch &&
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
$PWD/../configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Install the package

make -C gdb install

make -C gdb install is used to only install the gdb files. If the -C gdb switch is not used, files from this package will overwrite system files installed from binutils.