Re: GDB and MacOS 11.4/BigSur
Sam Warner via Gdb <[email protected]>
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Never mind - found it - https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Testsuite <https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Testsuite> > On Jun 28, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Sam Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > One more newbie question. After building, is there a canned set of tests to make sure what I built matches what’s expected? > (Using gcc-11 from home-brew) > > Sam > > >> On Jun 27, 2021, at 5:48 PM, Simon Marchi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2021-06-27 6:44 p.m., Sam Warner wrote: >>> Hi Simon, >>> >>> Thanks - yes - I’ll start with that patch first. I obtain the same call stack >>> >>> My next two things to learn is how to get the equivalent of the symbol-server working, and then to setup a developer-environment for GDB. Any pointers would be great. >> >> I don't know what symbol-server is, I can't help you with that. >> >> To build gdb, you normally just need to run these commands at the >> top-level: >> >> ./configure >> make all-gdb >> >> The built gdb will be at gdb/gdb. But there are some additional quirks >> on macOS though, so it's not as simple as that. GDB requires libgmp, so >> you need to install that. You need GNU make to build (the make that >> comes with macOS is not GNU make). You can install those using Macports >> (or Brew, I guess) or by building them by hand. You can then probably >> get by using the commands: >> >> ./configure --disable-nls CFLAGS="-g3 -O0" CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++17 -g3 -O0" --with-libgmp-prefix=/opt/local >> gmake >> >> Update /opt/local to point where your libgmp is installed. gmake refers >> to GNU make, when installed through Macports. >> >> Simon >