Re: GDB and MacOS 11.4/BigSur

[Sam Warner <samuel.r.warner@me.com>]

Never mind - found it - https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Testsuite <https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Testsuite> 

> On Jun 28, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Sam Warner <samuel.r.warner@me.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  One more newbie question.  After building, is there a canned set of tests to make sure what I built matches what’s expected?
>  (Using gcc-11 from home-brew)
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
>> On Jun 27, 2021, at 5:48 PM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2021-06-27 6:44 p.m., Sam Warner wrote:
>>> Hi Simon,
>>> 
>>>  Thanks - yes - I’ll start with that patch first.  I obtain the same call stack
>>> 
>>>  My next two things to learn is how to get the equivalent of the symbol-server working, and then to setup a developer-environment for GDB.  Any pointers would be great.
>> 
>> I don't know what symbol-server is, I can't help you with that.
>> 
>> To build gdb, you normally just need to run these commands at the
>> top-level:
>> 
>> ./configure
>> make all-gdb
>> 
>> The built gdb will be at gdb/gdb.  But there are some additional quirks
>> on macOS though, so it's not as simple as that.  GDB requires libgmp, so
>> you need to install that.  You need GNU make to build (the make that
>> comes with macOS is not GNU make).  You can install those using Macports
>> (or Brew, I guess) or by building them by hand.  You can then probably
>> get by using the commands:
>> 
>> ./configure --disable-nls CFLAGS="-g3 -O0" CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++17 -g3 -O0" --with-libgmp-prefix=/opt/local
>> gmake
>> 
>> Update /opt/local to point where your libgmp is installed.  gmake refers
>> to GNU make, when installed through Macports.
>> 
>> Simon
>