A Installing GDB
If you obtain GDB (WDB) as part of the HP ANSI C, HP ANSI C++ Developer's Kit for
If you obtain GDB (WDB) from an HP web site, you may download either an swinstall package or a source tree, or both.
Most customers will want to install the GDB binary that is part of the swinstall package. To do so, use a command of the form:
/usr/sbin/swinstall
Alternatively, it is possible to build GDB from the source distribution. If you want to modify the debugger sources to tailor GDB to your needs, you may wish to do this. The source distribution consists of a tar file containing the source tree rooted at
You can nd additional information specific to
GDB comes with a configure script that automates the process of preparing GDB for installation; you can then use make to build the gdb program.5
The GDB distribution includes all the source code you need for GDB in a single directory, whose name is usually composed by appending the version number to `gdb'.
For example, the GDB version
script for configuring GDB and all its supporting | |
supporting files) | libraries |
the source specific to GDB itself | |
source for the Binary File Descriptor library | |
gnu include files | |
source for the | |
source for the library of opcode tables and | |
| disassemblers |
source for the gnu | |
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source for the gnu filename | |
| subroutine |
5.If you have a more recent version of GDB than
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