source: general/prog/gdb.xml@ d3970e1

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gdb-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-&gdb-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gdb-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-&gdb-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gdb-md5sum        "24a6779a9fe0260667710de1b082ef61">
  <!ENTITY gdb-size          "20 MB">
  <!ENTITY gdb-buildsize     "314 MB (444 MB with checks)">
  <!ENTITY gdb-time          "1.9 SBU (5.9 SBU with checks)">
]>

<sect1 id="gdb" xreflabel="GDB-&gdb-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gdb.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GDB-&gdb-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gdb">
    <primary sortas="a-gdb">gdb</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GDB</title>

    <para>
      <application>GDB</application>, the GNU Project debugger, allows you
      to see what is going on <quote>inside</quote> another program while it
      executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.
      Note that <application>GDB</application> is most effective when tracing
      programs and libraries that were built with debugging symbols and not
      stripped.
    </para>

    &lfs72_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gdb-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gdb-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gdb-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gdb-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gdb-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gdb-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GDB Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="dejagnu"/> (for tests)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gdb"/>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GDB</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>GDB</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C gdb install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>- -disable-werror</command>: Recent versions of
    <application>gcc</application> generate warnings for a lot more
    <emphasis>possible</emphasis> errors. Because the <filename>Makefile</filename>
    uses the <literal>-Werror</literal> switch by default (to treat warnings as
    errors), this override is needed to allow the package to compile.</para>

  </sect2>
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  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gdb and gdbserver</seg>
        <seg>libinproctrace.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/gdb, /usr/share/gdb, and
        /usr/share/doc/gdb-&gdb-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gdb-prog">
        <term><command>gdb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the GNU Debugger.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gdb gdb-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gdb-prog">gdb-prog</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gdbserver">
        <term><command>gdbserver</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a remote server for the GNU debugger (it allows programs to be
            debugged from a different machine).
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gdb gdbserver">
            <primary sortas="b-gdbserver">gdbserver</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libinproctrace">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libinproctrace.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains functions for the in-process tracing agent. The agent
            allows for installing fast tracepoints, listing static tracepoint
            markers, probing static tracepoints markers, and starting trace
            monitoring.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gdb libinproctrace">
            <primary sortas="c-libinproctrace">libinproctrace.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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