From: Glenn Washburn Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:03:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: INSTALL: Document programs and packages needed for using gdb_grub script X-Git-Tag: grub-2.12-rc1~101 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f5d86063746924b83626960f1d03a85d5e1fc82;p=thirdparty%2Fgrub.git INSTALL: Document programs and packages needed for using gdb_grub script Now that the gdb_grub script uses the Python API in GDB, a GDB with Python support must be used. Note that this means a GDB with version greater than 7.0 must be used. This should not be an issue since that was released over a decade ago. Also, the minimum version of Python must be 3.5, which was released around 8 years ago. Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index d1d5a6b88..1c54bd8dc 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ To build the documentation you'll need: * texinfo, for the info and html documentation * texlive, for building the dvi and pdf documentation (optional) +To use the gdb_grub GDB script you'll need: +* readelf (binutils package) +* objdump (binutils package) +* GNU Debugger > 7, built with python support (gdb package) +* Python >= 3.5 (python3 package) + Configuring the GRUB ====================