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That directory contains: 83</p> 84<dl compact="compact"> 85<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/configure <span class="roman">(and supporting files)</span></code></dt> 86<dd><p>script for configuring <small>GDB</small> and all its supporting libraries 87</p> 88</dd> 89<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/gdb</code></dt> 90<dd><p>the source specific to <small>GDB</small> itself 91</p> 92</dd> 93<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/bfd</code></dt> 94<dd><p>source for the Binary File Descriptor library 95</p> 96</dd> 97<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/include</code></dt> 98<dd><p><small>GNU</small> include files 99</p> 100</dd> 101<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/libiberty</code></dt> 102<dd><p>source for the ‘<samp>-liberty</samp>’ free software library 103</p> 104</dd> 105<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/opcodes</code></dt> 106<dd><p>source for the library of opcode tables and disassemblers 107</p> 108</dd> 109<dt><code>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git/readline</code></dt> 110<dd><p>source for the <small>GNU</small> command-line interface 111</p></dd> 112</dl> 113 114<p>There may be other subdirectories as well. 115</p> 116<p>The simplest way to configure and build <small>GDB</small> is to run <samp>configure</samp> 117from the <samp>gdb-<var>version-number</var></samp> source directory, which in 118this example is the <samp>gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git</samp> directory. 119</p> 120<p>First switch to the <samp>gdb-<var>version-number</var></samp> source directory 121if you are not already in it; then run <samp>configure</samp>. Pass the 122identifier for the platform on which <small>GDB</small> will run as an 123argument. 124</p> 125<p>For example: 126</p> 127<div class="smallexample"> 128<pre class="smallexample">cd gdb-10.2.90.20210621-git 129./configure 130make 131</pre></div> 132 133<p>Running ‘<samp>configure</samp>’ and then running <code>make</code> builds the 134included supporting libraries, then <code>gdb</code> itself. The configured 135source files, and the binaries, are left in the corresponding source 136directories. 137</p> 138<p><samp>configure</samp> is a Bourne-shell (<code>/bin/sh</code>) script; if your 139system does not recognize this automatically when you run a different 140shell, you may need to run <code>sh</code> on it explicitly: 141</p> 142<div class="smallexample"> 143<pre class="smallexample">sh configure 144</pre></div> 145 146<p>You should run the <samp>configure</samp> script from the top directory in the 147source tree, the <samp>gdb-<var>version-number</var></samp> directory. If you run 148<samp>configure</samp> from one of the subdirectories, you will configure only 149that subdirectory. That is usually not what you want. In particular, 150if you run the first <samp>configure</samp> from the <samp>gdb</samp> subdirectory 151of the <samp>gdb-<var>version-number</var></samp> directory, you will omit the 152configuration of <samp>bfd</samp>, <samp>readline</samp>, and other sibling 153directories of the <samp>gdb</samp> subdirectory. This leads to build errors 154about missing include files such as <samp>bfd/bfd.h</samp>. 155</p> 156<p>You can install <code><small>GDB</small></code> anywhere. The best way to do this 157is to pass the <code>--prefix</code> option to <code>configure</code>, and then 158install it with <code>make install</code>. 159</p> 160<hr> 161<div class="header"> 162<p> 163Next: <a href="Separate-Objdir.html#Separate-Objdir" accesskey="n" rel="next">Separate Objdir</a>, Previous: <a href="Requirements.html#Requirements" accesskey="p" rel="previous">Requirements</a>, Up: <a href="Installing-GDB.html#Installing-GDB" accesskey="u" rel="up">Installing GDB</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> 164</div> 165 166 167 168</body> 169</html> 170