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| author |   Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com> | 2019-11-11 10:39:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com> | 2019-11-14 16:47:19 -0800 |
| commit | 9a3516679ba2e0abdbc4467dbb46f526343efd13 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e863fcd8137951186a426c2457a965bdc4b50d6 | |
| parent | Automatic date update in version.in (diff) | |
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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
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/README | 21 |
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 1a84242839b..134c883d823 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -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 diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index 8883a8a09e3..be7fdcb65d8 100644 --- a/gdb/README +++ b/gdb/README @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here. 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 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here. `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 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here. 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 |