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If your <code>make</code> program +handles the ‘<samp>VPATH</samp>’ feature (<small>GNU</small> <code>make</code> does), running +<code>make</code> in each of these directories builds the <code>gdb</code> +program specified there. +</p> +<p>To build <code>gdb</code> in a separate directory, run <samp>configure</samp> +with the ‘<samp>--srcdir</samp>’ option to specify where to find the source. +(You also need to specify a path to find <samp>configure</samp> +itself from your working directory. If the path to <samp>configure</samp> +would be the same as the argument to ‘<samp>--srcdir</samp>’, you can leave out +the ‘<samp>--srcdir</samp>’ option; it is assumed.) +</p> +<p>For example, with version 13.2.90.20231008-git, you can build <small>GDB</small> in a +separate directory for a Sun 4 like this: +</p> +<div class="smallexample"> +<pre class="smallexample">cd gdb-13.2.90.20231008-git +mkdir ../gdb-sun4 +cd ../gdb-sun4 +../gdb-13.2.90.20231008-git/configure +make +</pre></div> + +<p>When <samp>configure</samp> builds a configuration using a remote source +directory, it creates a tree for the binaries with the same structure +(and using the same names) as the tree under the source directory. In +the example, you’d find the Sun 4 library <samp>libiberty.a</samp> in the +directory <samp>gdb-sun4/libiberty</samp>, and <small>GDB</small> itself in +<samp>gdb-sun4/gdb</samp>. +</p> +<p>Make sure that your path to the <samp>configure</samp> script has just one +instance of <samp>gdb</samp> in it. If your path to <samp>configure</samp> looks +like <samp>../gdb-13.2.90.20231008-git/gdb/configure</samp>, you are configuring only +one subdirectory of <small>GDB</small>, not the whole package. This leads to +build errors about missing include files such as <samp>bfd/bfd.h</samp>. +</p> +<p>One popular reason to build several <small>GDB</small> configurations in separate +directories is to configure <small>GDB</small> for cross-compiling (where +<small>GDB</small> runs on one machine—the <em>host</em>—while debugging +programs that run on another machine—the <em>target</em>). +You specify a cross-debugging target by +giving the ‘<samp>--target=<var>target</var></samp>’ option to <samp>configure</samp>. +</p> +<p>When you run <code>make</code> to build a program or library, you must run +it in a configured directory—whatever directory you were in when you +called <samp>configure</samp> (or one of its subdirectories). +</p> +<p>The <code>Makefile</code> that <samp>configure</samp> generates in each source +directory also runs recursively. If you type <code>make</code> in a source +directory such as <samp>gdb-13.2.90.20231008-git</samp> (or in a separate configured +directory configured with ‘<samp>--srcdir=<var>dirname</var>/gdb-13.2.90.20231008-git</samp>’), you +will build all the required libraries, and then build GDB. +</p> +<p>When you have multiple hosts or targets configured in separate +directories, you can run <code>make</code> on them in parallel (for example, +if they are NFS-mounted on each of the hosts); they will not interfere +with each other. +</p> +<hr> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Config-Names.html#Config-Names" accesskey="n" rel="next">Config Names</a>, Previous: <a href="Running-Configure.html#Running-Configure" accesskey="p" rel="previous">Running Configure</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> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |