Changeset 9533795 for general/prog/gdb.xml

Timestamp:

05/02/2019 06:28:09 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

60424b6

Parents:

118b201

Message:

Recommend P3 with six for GDB

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21534 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/prog/gdb.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

general/prog/gdb.xml

@@ -77 +77 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GDB Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended Runtime Dependency</bridgehead>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      <xref linkend="six"/> (Python 3 module, required at run-time to
+      use GDB scripts from various LFS/BLFS packages with Python 3
+      installed in LFS)
+    </para>
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
@@ -83 +90 @@
       <xref linkend="gcc"/> (ada and gfortran are used for tests),
       <xref linkend="guile"/>,
-          <xref linkend="python2"/> or <xref linkend="six"/> (Python 3 module,
-          run-time),
+      <xref linkend="python2"/>,
       <xref linkend="rust"/> (used for some tests),
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/>, and
@@ -104 +110 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-system-readline &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
+            --with-system-readline \
+            --with-python=/usr/bin/python3 &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -226 +234 @@
       <parameter>--with-python=/usr/bin/python3</parameter>: This switch
       forces <application>GDB</application> to use Python 3 installed
-      in LFS.  Note that many GDB scripts shipped with LFS/BLFS packages
-      require <xref linkend="six"/> to work with Python 3.
+      in LFS.  Remove this switch if you have installed
+      <xref linkend="python2"/> and want to use it instead of Python 3.
     </para>