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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY gdb-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-&gdb-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY gdb-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-&gdb-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY gdb-md5sum "b89a5fac359c618dda97b88645ceab47">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY gdb-size "19 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gdb-buildsize "369 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY gdb-time "1.5 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="gdb" xreflabel="gdb-&gdb-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="gdb.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>gdb-&gdb-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="gdb">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-gdb">gdb</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to gdb</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para><application>GDB</application>, the GNU Project debugger, allows you
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| 33 | to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or
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| 34 | what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | &lfs70_built;
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gdb-download-http;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gdb-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &gdb-md5sum;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download size: &gdb-size;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &gdb-buildsize;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated build time: &gdb-time;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | </itemizedlist>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 61 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gdb"/></para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | </sect2>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 66 | <title>Installation of gdb</title>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <para>Install <application>gdb</application> by running the following
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| 69 | commands:</para>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 72 | --disable-werror &&
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| 73 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make -C gdb install</userinput></screen>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | </sect2>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 84 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <para><command>--disable-werror</command>: Recent versions of
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| 87 | <application>gcc</application> generate warnings for a lot more
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| 88 | <emphasis>possible</emphasis> errors. Because the <filename>Makefile</filename>
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| 89 | uses the <literal>-Werror</literal> switch by default (to treat warnings as
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| 90 | errors), this override is needed to allow the package to compile.</para>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | </sect2>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 95 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <segmentedlist>
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| 98 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 99 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 100 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <seglistitem>
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| 103 | <seg>gdb, gdbserver, and gdbtui</seg>
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| 104 | <seg>libinproctrace.so</seg>
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| 105 | <seg>/usr/share/gdb/{python/gdb/command,syscalls}</seg>
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| 106 | </seglistitem>
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| 107 | </segmentedlist>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <variablelist>
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| 110 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 111 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 112 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <varlistentry id="gdb-prog">
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| 115 | <term><command>gdb</command></term>
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| 116 | <listitem>
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| 117 | <para>is the GNU Debugger.</para>
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| 118 | <indexterm zone="gdb gdb-prog">
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| 119 | <primary sortas="b-gdb-prog">gdb-prog</primary>
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| 120 | </indexterm>
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| 121 | </listitem>
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| 122 | </varlistentry>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <varlistentry id="gdbserver">
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| 125 | <term><command>gdbserver</command></term>
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| 126 | <listitem>
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| 127 | <para>is a remote server for the GNU debugger (it allows programs to be
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| 128 | debugged from a different machine).</para>
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| 129 | <indexterm zone="gdb gdbserver">
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| 130 | <primary sortas="b-gdbserver">gdbserver</primary>
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| 131 | </indexterm>
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| 132 | </listitem>
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| 133 | </varlistentry>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <varlistentry id="gdbtui">
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| 136 | <term><command>gdbtui</command></term>
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| 137 | <listitem>
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| 138 | <para>is a text user interface for <application>gdb</application>.</para>
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| 139 | <indexterm zone="gdb gdbtui">
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| 140 | <primary sortas="b-gdbtui">gdbtui</primary>
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| 141 | </indexterm>
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| 142 | </listitem>
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| 143 | </varlistentry>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <!-- commenting, unless anyone feels able to describe this.
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| 146 | <varlistentry id="libinproctrace">
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| 147 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libinproctrace.so</filename></term>
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| 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>contains functions that .....</para>
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| 150 | <indexterm zone="gdb libinproctrace">
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| 151 | <primary sortas="c-libinproctrace">libinproctrace.so</primary>
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| 152 | </indexterm>
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| 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 | </varlistentry> -->
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| 155 |
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| 156 | </variablelist>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | </sect2>
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| 159 |
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| 160 | </sect1>
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