From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29245 invoked by alias); 28 Sep 2018 07:41:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29200 invoked by uid 89); 28 Sep 2018 07:41:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*m:fsf, mini, editing X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:41:12 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5nOc-0002Ai-II for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:41:11 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5nOc-0002Ae-EU; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:41:06 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3719 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g5nOc-0002uo-0r; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:41:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:41:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83ftxu6pdo.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <87y3bminvq.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:20:09 -0600) Subject: Re: [RFA] Update gdb's configure instructions References: <20180914042946.29248-1-tom@tromey.com> <83pnxgjxe7.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3bminvq.fsf@tromey.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00889.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:20:09 -0600 > > I think this version addresses all the comments. Thanks. This LGTM, modulo 2 nits below. > I hope so anyway, I tend to lose patience editing this text. I know how you feel, thanks for doing this. > +`--with-lzma' > + Build GDB with LZMA, a compression library. (Done by default if > + liblzma is installed and found at configure time.) LZMA is used > + by GDB's "mini debuginfo" feature, which is only useful on > + platforms using the ELF object file format.. If your host does ^^ A typo. > +`--with-python[=PYTHON]' > Build GDB with Python scripting support. (Done by default if > libpython is present and found at configure time.) Python makes > 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 > + you can find it on `http://www.python.org/download/'. The oldest > version of Python supported by GDB is 2.4. The optional argument > - PATH says where to find the Python headers and libraries; the > - configure script will look in PATH/include for headers and in > - PATH/lib for the libraries. > + PYTHON names a Python executable, which will be queried to find > + the Python headers and libraries. Did this change since GDB 8.2? Because when I built GDB 8.2, the argument to --with-python was the top-level directory of the Python installation on my build system.