From 7d01629580949a18960f79603fca1d0edb337aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerion Entrup Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 14:51:02 +0200 Subject: 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 --- docs/markdown/snippets/add_gdb_path.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/markdown/snippets/add_gdb_path.md (limited to 'docs/markdown/snippets') 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 +``` -- cgit v1.1