Commit Message
The original change was created by Christian Biesinger.
Change URL: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/612
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Update README
Adds descriptions for some recent-ish configure options to README.
Also updates the minimum Python version per commit
6c28e44a359e9f6cf455ddff0009ca99406f7224.
2019-11-14 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
* README (`configure' options): Update.
Change-Id: I8ce8ca6935afbd130295e143802c585cf1e735f9
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M gdb/ChangeLog
M gdb/README
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-11-14 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
+
+ * README (`configure' options): Update.
+
2019-11-14 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* eval.c (evaluate_subexp_standard) <BINOP_ASSIGN>: Do not pass an
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
GDB scripting much more powerful than the restricted CLI
scripting language. If your host does not have Python installed,
you can find it on `http://www.python.org/download/'. The oldest
- version of Python supported by GDB is 2.4. The optional argument
+ version of Python supported by GDB is 2.6. The optional argument
PYTHON is used to find the Python headers and libraries. It can
be either the name of a Python executable, or the name of the
directory in which Python is installed.
@@ -507,6 +507,16 @@
`pkg-config' executable, which will be queried to find the
information needed to compile and link against Guile.
+`--enable-source-highlight'
+ When printing source code, use source highlighting. This requires
+ libsource-highlight to be installed and is enabled by default
+ if the library is found.
+
+`--with-xxhash'
+ Use libxxhash for hashing. This has no user-visible effect but
+ speeds up various GDB operations such as symbol loading. Enabled
+ by default if libxxhash is found.
+
`--without-included-regex'
Don't use the regex library included with GDB (as part of the
libiberty library). This is the default on hosts with version 2
@@ -528,6 +538,15 @@
after being built, the location of the system-wide init file will
be adjusted accordingly.
+`--with-system-gdbinit-dir=DIR'
+ Configure GDB to automatically load system-wide init files from
+ a directory. Files with extensions `.gdb', `.py' (if Python
+ support is enabled) and `.scm' (if Guile support is enabled) are
+ supported. DIR should be an absolute directory name. If DIR is
+ in a directory under the configured prefix, and GDB is moved to
+ another location after being built, the location of the system-
+ wide init directory will be adjusted accordingly.
+
`--enable-build-warnings'
When building the GDB sources, ask the compiler to warn about any
code which looks even vaguely suspicious. It passes many