Debugging with GDB Manual (5900-1473; WDB 6.2; January 2011)

A Installing GDB
If you obtain GDB (HP WDB) as part of the HP ANSI C, HP ANSI C++ Developer's Kit
for HP-UX Release 11.x, or HP Fortran, you do not have to take any special action to
build or install GDB.
If you obtain GDB (HP 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 -s package-name WDB
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 gdb-4.17/....
The instructions that follow describe how to build a `gdb' executable from this source
tree. HP believes that these instructions apply to the HP WDB source tree that it distributes.
However, HP does not explicitly support building a `gdb' for any non-HP platform from
the HP WDB source tree. It may work, but HP has not tested it for any platforms other
than those described in the HP WDB Release Notes.
You can find additional information specific to Hewlett-Packard in the `README.HP.WDB'
file at the root of the source tree.
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.
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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 gdb-199991101 distribution is in the
`gdb-gdb-199991101' directory. That directory contains:
gdb-gdb-199991101/configure (and
supporting files)
script for configuring GDB and all its supporting
libraries
gdb-gdb-199991101/gdb the source specific to GDB itself
gdb-gdb-199991101/bfd source for the Binary File Descriptor library
gdb-gdb-199991101/include gnu include files
gdb-gdb-199991101/libiberty source for the `-liberty' free software library
gdb-gdb-199991101/opcodes source for the library of opcode tables and
disassemblers
gdb-gdb-199991101/readline source for the gnu command-line interface
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gdb-gdb-199991101/glob source for the gnu filename pattern-matching
subroutine
5. If you have a more recent version of GDB than gdb-199991101, look at the README file in the sources;
we may have improved the installation procedures since publishing this manual.
362 Installing GDB