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Re: [RFA] Update gdb's configure instructions
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:20:09 -0600
>
> I think this version addresses all the comments.
Thanks. This LGTM, modulo 2 nits below.
> I hope so anyway, I tend to lose patience editing this text.
I know how you feel, thanks for doing this.
> +`--with-lzma'
> + Build GDB with LZMA, a compression library. (Done by default if
> + liblzma is installed and found at configure time.) LZMA is used
> + by GDB's "mini debuginfo" feature, which is only useful on
> + platforms using the ELF object file format.. If your host does
^^
A typo.
> +`--with-python[=PYTHON]'
> Build GDB with Python scripting support. (Done by default if
> libpython is present and found at configure time.) Python makes
> GDB scripting much more powerful than the restricted CLI
> scripting language. If your host does not have Python installed,
> - you can find it on http://www.python.org/download/. The oldest
> + you can find it on `http://www.python.org/download/'. The oldest
> version of Python supported by GDB is 2.4. The optional argument
> - PATH says where to find the Python headers and libraries; the
> - configure script will look in PATH/include for headers and in
> - PATH/lib for the libraries.
> + PYTHON names a Python executable, which will be queried to find
> + the Python headers and libraries.
Did this change since GDB 8.2? Because when I built GDB 8.2, the
argument to --with-python was the top-level directory of the Python
installation on my build system.