Re: GDB and MacOS 11.4/BigSur

Sam Warner via Gdb
2021-06-29T00:05:03Z

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 <samuel.r.warner@me.com> 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 <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
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