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How to build and install the DJGPP native version of GDB
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General
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GDB built with DJGPP supports native DJGPP debugging, whereby you run
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gdb.exe and the program being debugged on the same machine. In
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addition, this version supports remote debugging via a serial port,
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provided that the target machine has a GDB-compatible debugging stub
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which can be linked with the target program (see the section "Remote
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Serial" in the GDB manual for more details).
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Installation of the binary distribution
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Simply unzip the gdbNNNb.zip file (where NNN is the version number)
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from the top DJGPP installation directory. Be sure to preserve the
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directory structure while you unzip (use -d switch if you do this with
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PKUNZIP). On Windows 9X and Windows 2000, use an unzip program which
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supports long file names; one such program is unzip32.exe, available
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from the DJGPP sites.
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If you need the libraries which are built as part of GDB, install the
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companion file gdbNNNa.zip. This allows to develop applications which
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use the same functions as GDB. For example, you can build your own
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front end to the debugger.
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Rebuilding GDB from sources
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===========================
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1. Prerequisites
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-------------
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To build the package, you will need the DJGPP development environment
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(GCC, header files, and the libraries), and also DJGPP ports of the
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following tools:
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- GNU Make 3.79.1 or later
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- Bash 2.03 or later
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- GNU Sed
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- GNU Fileutils
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- GNU Textutils 2.0 or later
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- GNU Sh-utils
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- GNU Grep 2.4 or later
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- GNU Findutils
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- GNU Awk 3.04 or later
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- GNU Bison (only if you change one of the gdb/*.y files)
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- Groff (only if you need to format the man pages)
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- GNU Diffutils (only if you run the test suite)
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These programs should be available from the DJGPP sites, in the v2gnu
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directory. In addition, the configuration script invokes the `update'
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and `utod' utilities which are part of the basic DJGPP development kit
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(djdevNNN.zip).
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2. Unpacking the sources
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If you download the source distribution from one of the DJGPP sites,
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just unzip it while preserving the directory structure (I suggest to
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use unzip32.exe available with the rest of DJGPP), and proceed to the
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section "How to build", below.
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Source distributions downloaded from one of the GNU FTP sites need
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some more work to unpack. First, you MUST use the `djunpack' batch
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file to unzip the package. That's because some file names in the
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official distributions need to be changed to avoid problems on the
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various platforms supported by DJGPP. `djunpack' invokes the `djtar'
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program (that is part of the basic DJGPP development kit) to rename
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these files on the fly given a file with name mappings; the
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distribution includes a file `gdb/config/djgpp/fnchange.lst' with the
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necessary mappings. So you need first to retrieve that batch file,
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and then invoke it to unpack the distribution. Here's how:
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djtar -x -p -o gdb-5.2/djunpack.bat gdb-5.2.tar.gz > djunpack.bat
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djunpack gdb-5.2.tar.gz
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(The name of the distribution archive and the leading directory of the
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path to `djunpack.bat' in the distribution will be different for
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versions of GDB other than 5.2.)
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If the argument to `djunpack.bat' include leading directories, it MUST
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be given with the DOS-style backslashes; Unix-style forward slashes
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will NOT work.
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If the distribution comes as a .tar.bz2 archive, and your version of
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`djtar' doesn't support bzip2 decompression, you need to unpack it as
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follows:
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bnzip2 gdb-5.2.tar.bz2
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djtar -x -p -o gdb-5.2/djunpack.bat gdb-5.2.tar > djunpack.bat
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djunpack gdb-5.2.tar
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3. How to build
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------------
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If the source distribution available from DJGPP archives is already
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configured for DJGPP v2.x (if it is, you will find files named
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`Makefile' in each subdirectory), then just invoke Make:
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make
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To build a package that is not yet configured, or if you downloaded
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GDB from a GNU FTP site, you will need to configure it first. You
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will also need to configure it if you want to change the configuration
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options (e.g., compile without support for the GDBMI interface). To
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configure GDB, type this command:
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sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh
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This script checks the unpacked distribution, then edits the configure
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scripts in the various subdirectories, to make them suitable for
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DJGPP, and finally invokes the top-level configure script, which
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recursively configures all the subdirectories.
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You may pass optional switches to djconfig.sh. It accepts all the
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switches accepted by the original GDB configure script. These
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switches are described in the file gdb/README, and their full list can
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be displayed by running the following command:
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sh ./gdb/configure --help
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NOTE: if you *do* use optional command-line switches, you MUST pass
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to the script the name of the directory where GDB sources are
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unpacked--even if you are building GDB in-place! For example:
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sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh . --disable-gdbmi
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It is also possible to build GDB in a directory that is different from
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the one where the sources were unpacked. In that case, you have to
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pass the source directory as the first argument to the script:
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sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh d:/gnu/gdb-5.2
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You MUST use forward slashes in the first argument.
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After the configure script finishes, run Make:
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make
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If you want to produce the documentation (for example, if you changed
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some of the Texinfo sources), type this:
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make info
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When Make finishes, you can install the package:
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make install prefix='${DJDIR}' INSTALL='ginstall -c'
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The above doesn't install the docs; for that you will need to say
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this:
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make install-info prefix='${DJDIR}' INSTALL='ginstall -c'
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The test suite has been made to work with DJGPP. If you make a change
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in some of the programs, or want to be sure you have a fully
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functional GDB executable, it is a good idea to run the test suite.
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You cannot use "make check" for that, since it will want to run the
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`dejagnu' utility which GDB doesn't support. Instead, use the special
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script gdb/config/djgpp/djcheck.sh, like this:
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cd gdb/testsuite
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sh ../config/djgpp/djcheck.sh
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This will run for a while and should not print anything, except the
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messages "Running tests in DIR", where DIR is one of the
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subdirectories of the testsuite. Any test that fails to produce the
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expected output will cause the diffs between the expected and the
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actual output be printed, and in addition will leave behind a file
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SOMETHING.tst (where SOMETHING is the name of the failed test). You
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should compare each of the *.tst files with the corresponding *.out
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file and convince yourself that the differences do not indicate a real
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problem. Examples of differences you can disregard are changes in the
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copyright blurb printed by GDB, values of unitialized variables,
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addresses of global variables like argv[] and envp[] (which depend on
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the size of your environment), etc.
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Note that djcheck.sh only recurses into those of the subdirectories of
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the test suite which test features supported by the DJGPP port of GDB.
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For example, the tests in the gdb.gdbtk, gdb.threads, and gdb.hp
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directories are not run.
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Enjoy,
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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