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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2000-05-17 11:49:53 +0000
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* gdb/config/djgpp/README: Fine-tune installation instructions
based on user reports.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/config/djgpp/README31
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index a92465b..c19083a 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-05-17 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+
+ * gdb/config/djgpp/README: Fine-tune installation instructions
+ based on user reports.
+
Wed May 17 18:27:45 2000 Andrew Cagney <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>
* configure.in (build_warnings): List possible warnings.
diff --git a/gdb/config/djgpp/README b/gdb/config/djgpp/README
index b45c003..326cfe2 100644
--- a/gdb/config/djgpp/README
+++ b/gdb/config/djgpp/README
@@ -140,14 +140,19 @@ After the configure script finishes, run Make:
make
+If you want to produce the documentation (for example, if you changed
+some of the Texinfo sources), type this:
+
+ make info
+
When Make finishes, you can install the package:
- make install INSTALL='/dev/env/DJDIR/bin/ginstall -c'
+ make -k install prefix='${DJDIR}' INSTALL='ginstall -c'
The above doesn't install the docs; for that you will need to say
this:
- make -k install-info INSTALL='/dev/env/DJDIR/bin/ginstall -c'
+ make -k install-info prefix='${DJDIR}' INSTALL='ginstall -c'
(The -k switch is required, because some unneeded targets that are
part of the install process fail; -k lets Make run to completion
@@ -163,16 +168,18 @@ script gdb/config/djgpp/djcheck.sh, like this:
cd gdb/testsuite
sh ../config/djgpp/djcheck.sh
-This will run for a while and should not print anything. Any test
-that fails to produce the expected output will cause the diffs between
-the expected and the actual output be printed, and in addition will
-leave behind a file SOMETHING.tst (where SOMETHING is the name of one
-of the tests). You should compare each of the *.tst files with the
-corresponding *.out file and convince yourself that the differences do
-not indicate a real problem. Examples of differences you can
-disregard are changes in the copyright blurb printed by GDB, values of
-unitialized variables, addresses of global variables like argv[] and
-envp[] (which depend on the size of your environment), etc.
+This will run for a while and should not print anything, except the
+messages "Running tests in DIR", where DIR is one of the
+subdirectories of the testsuite. Any test that fails to produce the
+expected output will cause the diffs between the expected and the
+actual output be printed, and in addition will leave behind a file
+SOMETHING.tst (where SOMETHING is the name of the failed test). You
+should compare each of the *.tst files with the corresponding *.out
+file and convince yourself that the differences do not indicate a real
+problem. Examples of differences you can disregard are changes in the
+copyright blurb printed by GDB, values of unitialized variables,
+addresses of global variables like argv[] and envp[] (which depend on
+the size of your environment), etc.
Note that djcheck.sh only recurses into those of the subdirectories of
the test suite which test features supported by the DJGPP port of GDB.