On 2 August 2011 03:44, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 13:59 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> As usual, I forgot an item of news that I wanted to impart a second >> after hitting 'y'. For those who follow this type of thing, gdb now has >> a python scripting interface. That is not turned on in this Cygwin >> release, primarily because the release was so overdue that I didn't want >> to waste time figuring out what I needed to pull into my cross-build >> environment. > > If I may, based on looking at configure, you'll need libpython2.6.dll.a > in $sysroot/usr/lib and the Python headers in > $sysroot/usr/include/python2.6, and add -I$sysroot/usr/include/python2.6 > to CPPFLAGS. (I wouldn't advise moving them straight into > $sysroot/usr/include/, their names are too generic.)
Passing '--with-python=/usr/bin/python' as opposed to messing with CPPFLAGS, etc. might be easier. I just recently built if for MinGW and specifying the python interpreter in '--with-python' caused gdb's configure to DTRT (in terms of locating the header files, appropriate libraries, etc.). Cheers, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
