X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gdb%2FREADME;h=0ec1605ce5a79ebbd4ad08d78ce8c30bc36c9483;hb=cbd7581f343d85b4216db2eefdf601f6d988062d;hp=be7fdcb65d807c178a54ee4c3ab87a086bf75284;hpb=9a3516679ba2e0abdbc4467dbb46f526343efd13;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index be7fdcb65d..0ec1605ce5 100644 --- a/gdb/README +++ b/gdb/README @@ -432,6 +432,15 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here. Use the curses library instead of the termcap library, for text-mode terminal operations. +`--with-debuginfod' + Build GDB with libdebuginfod, the debuginfod client library. Used + to automatically fetch source files and separate debug files from + debuginfod servers using the associated executable's build ID. + Enabled by default if libdebuginfod is installed and found at + configure time. debuginfod is packaged with elfutils, starting + with version 0.178. You can get the latest version from + 'https://sourceware.org/elfutils/'. + `--with-libunwind-ia64' Use the libunwind library for unwinding function call stack on ia64 target platforms. @@ -583,12 +592,11 @@ of remote stubs to be used with remote.c. They are designed to run standalone on an m68k, i386, or SPARC cpu and communicate properly with the remote.c stub over a serial line. - The directory gdb/gdbserver/ contains `gdbserver', a program that + The directory gdbserver/ contains `gdbserver', a program that allows remote debugging for Unix applications. GDBserver is only -supported for some native configurations, including Sun 3, Sun 4, and -Linux. +supported for some native configurations. - The file gdb/gdbserver/README includes further notes on GDBserver; in + The file gdbserver/README includes further notes on GDBserver; in particular, it explains how to build GDBserver for cross-debugging (where GDBserver runs on the target machine, which is of a different architecture than the host machine running GDB).