Re: GDB and MacOS 11.4/BigSur

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2021-06-28 9:44 p.m., Sam Warner wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>    Thank you - the added details you gave me really helped, especially when I both obtained the official 10.2 source set, and followed the BuildingForDarwin <https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingOnDarwin> instructions for  ".configure --disable-intl”.

If you intend to make changes that you want integrated upstream, you
should really work using the latest git (and keep it up to date), not
10.2.

That wiki page is really old, it could really use a refresh.

>   I successfully built now, and off to use the test-suites

Glad to hear it.

You can do some manual some tests first, trying to debug a little
program.  If that works, to run the testsuite:

  https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/TestingGDB

However, I expect it to be in a really bad shape on macOS (if you can
get it to run at all) and would need quite a lot of effort to run
relatively clean.  But all efforts start with a baby step, so if you can
get at least a small test to run it would be great already.  For
example, getting the gdb.base/template.exp test to run (it's kind of a
"Hello World!" test, serving as an example when writing a test from
scratch.  So you would use:

  $ make check TESTS="gdb.base/template.exp"

Simon