I confirm this on current 14.04 LTS release. However, I no longer have problems regarding bug #1256419, so it seems the printers.py file syntax has already been updated in upstream.
So just commenting out the two lines Simon Suggests solves the issue for me (however, I'm not doing any multiarch releases, so I don't know what is broken by this fix). ** Changed in: gcc-4.8 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1446828 Title: gdb pretty printers do not auto-load on Trusty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1446828/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs