From: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] gdb/README: Document GNU Make requirement
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:29:30 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260305182930.4119998-1-guinevere@redhat.com> (raw)
User la_mettrie on IRC mentioned that they were having difficulties
building GDB, and after some debugging, we figured out that they weren't
using GNU Make. This is in the final documentation, but considering that
it is not an obvious place to look, and the README mentions other build
requirements, so this seems like a pretty obvious oversight.
---
gdb/README | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README
index 492b0891668..09c88bcd19c 100644
--- a/gdb/README
+++ b/gdb/README
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ configure the build tree.)
C++17 compiler for your system, you may be able to download and install
the GNU CC compiler. It is available via anonymous FTP from the
directory `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc'. GDB also requires an ISO
-C standard library. The GDB remote server, GDBserver, builds with some
-non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE.
+C standard library and GNU Make. The GDB remote server, GDBserver,
+builds with some non-ISO standard libraries - e.g. for Windows CE.
GDB can optionally be built against various external libraries.
These dependencies are described below in the "`configure options"
base-commit: 7c5179caca8cbca0f2fdb64f0fe215cee803ccb3
prerequisite-patch-id: 47ca70553d73d20b7f4c648078529a2bb301eb64
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-05 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-05 18:29 Guinevere Larsen [this message]
2026-03-05 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-05 19:03 ` Guinevere Larsen
2026-03-06 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-05 19:01 ` Andrew Pinski
2026-03-06 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-06 12:13 ` [PATCH v2] gdb/README: Refactor where build requirements are explained Guinevere Larsen
2026-03-06 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-06 16:43 ` Guinevere Larsen
2026-03-06 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-09 14:28 ` [PATCH v3] " Guinevere Larsen
2026-03-09 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-09 16:27 ` Guinevere Larsen
2026-03-09 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-03-09 16:58 ` Pierre Muller
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