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-rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo | 15 |
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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 |