Re: GDB and MacOS 11.4/BigSur

Sam Warner via Gdb
2021-06-28T21:52:07Z

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 <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> 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