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authorChristian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>2019-11-11 10:39:31 -0800
committerChristian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>2019-11-14 16:47:19 -0800
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Update README
Adds descriptions for some recent-ish configure options to README. Also updates the minimum Python version per commit 6c28e44a359e9f6cf455ddff0009ca99406f7224. 2019-11-14 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com> * README (`configure' options): Update. Change-Id: I8ce8ca6935afbd130295e143802c585cf1e735f9
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-11-14 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
+
+ * README (`configure' options): Update.
+
2019-11-14 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* eval.c (evaluate_subexp_standard) <BINOP_ASSIGN>: Do not pass an
diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README
index 8883a8a09e3..be7fdcb65d8 100644
--- a/gdb/README
+++ b/gdb/README
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here.
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
- version of Python supported by GDB is 2.4. The optional argument
+ version of Python supported by GDB is 2.6. The optional argument
PYTHON is used to find the Python headers and libraries. It can
be either the name of a Python executable, or the name of the
directory in which Python is installed.
@@ -507,6 +507,16 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here.
`pkg-config' executable, which will be queried to find the
information needed to compile and link against Guile.
+`--enable-source-highlight'
+ When printing source code, use source highlighting. This requires
+ libsource-highlight to be installed and is enabled by default
+ if the library is found.
+
+`--with-xxhash'
+ Use libxxhash for hashing. This has no user-visible effect but
+ speeds up various GDB operations such as symbol loading. Enabled
+ by default if libxxhash is found.
+
`--without-included-regex'
Don't use the regex library included with GDB (as part of the
libiberty library). This is the default on hosts with version 2
@@ -528,6 +538,15 @@ more obscure GDB `configure' options are not listed here.
after being built, the location of the system-wide init file will
be adjusted accordingly.
+`--with-system-gdbinit-dir=DIR'
+ Configure GDB to automatically load system-wide init files from
+ a directory. Files with extensions `.gdb', `.py' (if Python
+ support is enabled) and `.scm' (if Guile support is enabled) are
+ supported. DIR should be an absolute directory name. If DIR is
+ in a directory under the configured prefix, and GDB is moved to
+ another location after being built, the location of the system-
+ wide init directory will be adjusted accordingly.
+
`--enable-build-warnings'
When building the GDB sources, ask the compiler to warn about any
code which looks even vaguely suspicious. It passes many