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| author | Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@flump.de> | 2019-10-02 14:51:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2019-10-04 01:10:07 +0300 |
| commit | 7d01629580949a18960f79603fca1d0edb337aa1 (patch) | |
| tree | 541fd27f5d2216722b03949ff46abf8413085c0b /docs/markdown/snippets | |
| parent | 8d3fcb3dc4d7204a4646807f8b5191d79fb291e5 (diff) | |
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mtest: add gdb_path option
When using the '--gdb' argument of meson test the executed binary can
now be specified with '--gdb-path'.
Closing: #4373
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/add_gdb_path.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/add_gdb_path.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..873c3fc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/add_gdb_path.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +## The meson test program now accepts an additional "--gdb-path" argument to specify the GDB binary + +`meson test --gdb testname` invokes GDB with the specific test case. However, sometimes GDB is not in the path or a GDB replacement is wanted. +Therefore, a `--gdb-path` argument was added to specify which binary is executed (per default `gdb`): + +```console +$ meson test --gdb --gdb-path /my/special/location/for/gdb testname +$ meson test --gdb --gdb-path cgdb testname +``` |