Changeset d38dc9a for general/prog/gdb.xml

Timestamp:

04/20/2019 03:23:00 PM (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:

1eac9eb

Parents:

96fcf51

Message:

Add a note about building GDB with Python 3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21480 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/prog/gdb.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

general/prog/gdb.xml

@@ -83 +83 @@
       <xref linkend="gcc"/> (ada and gfortran are used for tests),
       <xref linkend="guile"/>,
-      <xref linkend="python2"/>,
+          <xref linkend="python2"/> or <xref linkend="six"/> (Python 3 module,
+          run-time),
       <xref linkend="rust"/> (used for some tests),
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/>, and
@@ -220 +221 @@
       <application>GDB</application> to use the copy of
       <application>Readline</application> installed in LFS.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <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.
     </para>