diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e85d24dbc77..3e0a546e7aa 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2000-04-23 Eli Zaretskii + + * djunpack.bat: New file. + Wed Apr 19 12:46:26 2000 Andrew Cagney * Makefile.in (taz, gdb-taz, gas.tar.bz2, binutils.tar.bz2, diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 474144106b4..d183e848645 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2000-04-23 Eli Zaretskii + + * config/djgpp/README: Explain how to unpack using djunpack.bat. + 2000-04-21 Elena Zannoni * gdb-stabs.h (SECT_OFF_MAX): Increase to 40. diff --git a/gdb/config/djgpp/README b/gdb/config/djgpp/README index cced23473df..b45c00334af 100644 --- a/gdb/config/djgpp/README +++ b/gdb/config/djgpp/README @@ -65,21 +65,33 @@ use unzip32.exe available with the rest of DJGPP), and proceed to the section "How to build" below. Source distributions downloaded from one of the GNU FTP sites need -some more work to unpack. First, you MUST use the `djtar' program to -unzip the package. That's because some file names in the official -distributions need to be changed to avoid problems on the various -platforms supported by DJGPP. `djtar' can rename files on the fly -given a file with name mappings; the distribution includes a file -`gdb/config/djgpp/fnchange.lst' with the necessary mappings. So you -need first to retrieve that file, and then invoke `djtar' to unpack -the distribution. Here's how: +some more work to unpack. First, you MUST use the `djunpack' batch +file to unzip the package. That's because some file names in the +official distributions need to be changed to avoid problems on the +various platforms supported by DJGPP. `djunpack' invokes the `djtar' +program (that is part of the basic DJGPP development kit) to rename +these files on the fly given a file with name mappings; the +distribution includes a file `gdb/config/djgpp/fnchange.lst' with the +necessary mappings. So you need first to retrieve that batch file, +and then invoke it to unpack the distribution. Here's how: + djtar -x -p -o gdb-5.0/djunpack.bat gdb-5.0.tar.gz > djunpack.bat + djunpack gdb-5.0.tar.gz - djtar -x -p -o gdb-5.0/gdb/config/djgpp/fnchange.lst gdb-5.0.tar.gz > lst - djtar -x -n lst gdb-5.0.tar.gz +(The name of the distribution archive and the leading directory of the +path to `djunpack.bat' in the distribution will be different for +versions of GDB other than 5.0.) -(The name of the distribution archive and the top-level directory will -be different for versions other than 5.0.) +If the argument to `djunpack.bat' include leading directories, it MUST +be given with the DOS-style backslashes; Unix-style forward slashes +will NOT work. + +If the distribution comes as a .tar.bz2 archive, you need to unpack it +as follows: + + bnzip2 gdb-5.0.tar.bz2 + djtar -x -p -o gdb-5.0/djunpack.bat gdb-5.0.tar > djunpack.bat + djunpack gdb-5.0.tar 3. How to build