diff options
| author | Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com> | 2008-02-13 05:05:29 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com> | 2008-02-13 05:05:29 +0000 |
| commit | 36af4ef67677fb266a52888d48fd85d7f889c050 (patch) | |
| tree | e44cc167a6fcf41c000203ae1f4c0994f2dd1b74 /gdb/doc | |
| parent | 0daa6f62c88fe4d1dd680b09e855c4b8b7811403 (diff) | |
| download | gdb-36af4ef67677fb266a52888d48fd85d7f889c050.zip gdb-36af4ef67677fb266a52888d48fd85d7f889c050.tar.gz gdb-36af4ef67677fb266a52888d48fd85d7f889c050.tar.bz2 | |
Add script to build and test GDB using enable-targets=all.
* gdb_buildall.sh: New file.
doc/
* gdbint.texinfo (Build Script): New section. Mention new build script
gdb_buildall.sh.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo | 15 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index a9670b6..9f2dcf9 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-02-13 Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com> + + * gdbint.texinfo (Build Script): New section. Mention new build script + gdb_buildall.sh. + 2008-02-01 Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> * gdb.texinfo (Help): Summarize 'info args' correctly. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo index 8946d5b..38e9b43 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo @@ -7058,6 +7058,21 @@ is so old that it has never been converted to use BFD. Now that's old! @end table +@section Build Script + +@cindex build script + +The script @file{gdb_buildall.sh} builds @value{GDBN} with flag +@option{--enable-targets=all} set. This builds @value{GDBN} with all supported +targets activated. This helps testing @value{GDBN} when doing changes that +affect more than one architecture and is much faster than using +@file{gdb_mbuild.sh}. + +After building @value{GDBN} the script checks which architectures are +supported and then switches the current architecture to each of those to get +information about the architecture. The test results are stored in log files +in the directory the script was called from. + @include observer.texi @raisesections @include fdl.texi |