[PATCH] Display configuration details in --help

Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-20T17:40:22Z

GDB has a lot of configuration options, but once you've built and
installed it, it is hard to know which ones where specified and/or
auto-detected, and which weren't. And if you, like me, keep several
prior versions of GDB around, but not necessarily keep their build
trees, about the only way to find out these configuration details is
by using 'strings' or by running GDB under a debugger, which is really
gross and also inefficient.

So I made a patch to display the important configuration parameters as
part of --help. The patched GDB produces information like this on my
system:

This GDB is configured as follows:
configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32
--with-auto-load-dir=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
--with-auto-load-safe-path=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
--with-expat
--with-gdb-datadir=d:/usr/share/gdb (relocatable)
--with-jit-reader-dir=d:/usr/lib/gdb (relocatable)
--without-libunwind-ia64
--with-lzma
--with-python=d:/usr/Python26 (relocatable)
--with-separate-debug-dir=d:/usr/lib/debug (relocatable)
--with-system-gdbinit=d:/usr/etc/gdbinit (relocatable)
--with-zlib

I think this will also be useful for when users report problems,
because some solutions depend on how GDB was configured.

Do people think this will be useful? The patch is below.

2013-03-20 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

* main.c (print_gdb_help): Display configuration details.

--- gdb/main.c~1 2013-03-20 13:15:01.737639100 +0200
+++ gdb/main.c 2013-03-20 19:27:51.103852400 +0200
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
#include "windows-nat.h"
#endif

+#include "version.h"
+
/* The selected interpreter. This will be used as a set command
variable, so it should always be malloc'ed - since
do_setshow_command will free it. */
@@ -1142,6 +1144,85 @@
--write Set writing into executable and core files.\n\
--xdb XDB compatibility mode.\n\
"), stream);
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\n\
+This GDB is configured as follows:\n\
+ configure --host=%s --target=%s\n\
+"), host_name, target_name);
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-auto-load-dir=%s\n\
+ --with-auto-load-safe-path=%s\n\
+"), AUTO_LOAD_DIR, AUTO_LOAD_SAFE_PATH);
+#if HAVE_LIBEXPAT
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-expat\n\
+"));
+#else
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --without-expat\n\
+"));
+#endif
+ if (GDB_DATADIR[0])
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-gdb-datadir=%s%s\n\
+"), GDB_DATADIR, GDB_DATADIR_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+#ifdef ICONV_BIN
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-iconv-bin=%s%s\n\
+"), ICONV_BIN, ICONV_BIN_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+#endif
+ if (JIT_READER_DIR[0])
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-jit-reader-dir=%s%s\n\
+"), JIT_READER_DIR, JIT_READER_DIR_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+#if HAVE_LIBUNWIND_IA64_H
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-libunwind-ia64\n\
+"));
+#else
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --without-libunwind-ia64\n\
+"));
+#endif
+#if HAVE_LIBLZMA
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-lzma\n\
+"));
+#else
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --without-lzma\n\
+"));
+#endif
+#ifdef WITH_PYTHON_PATH
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-python=%s%s\n\
+"), WITH_PYTHON_PATH, PYTHON_PATH_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+#endif
+#ifdef RELOC_SRCDIR
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-relocated-sources=%s\n\
+"), RELOC_SRCDIR);
+#endif
+ if (DEBUGDIR[0])
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-separate-debug-dir=%s%s\n\
+"), DEBUGDIR, DEBUGDIR_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+ if (TARGET_SYSTEM_ROOT[0])
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-sysroot=%s%s\n\
+"), TARGET_SYSTEM_ROOT, TARGET_SYSTEM_ROOT_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+ if (SYSTEM_GDBINIT[0])
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-system-gdbinit=%s%s\n\
+"), SYSTEM_GDBINIT, SYSTEM_GDBINIT_RELOCATABLE ? " (relocatable)" : "");
+#if HAVE_ZLIB_H
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --with-zlib\n\
+"));
+#else
+ fprintf_unfiltered (stream, _("\
+ --without-zlib\n\
+"));
+#endif
fputs_unfiltered (_("\n\
At startup, GDB reads the following init files and executes their commands:\n\
"), stream);