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Re: [RFA] Add --enable-codesign to gdb's configure
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:30:59 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add --enable-codesign to gdb's configure
- References: <20180628163745.12716-1-tom@tromey.com>
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:37:45 -0600
>
> macOS requires that the gdb executable be signed in order to be able
> to successfully use ptrace. This must be done after each link.
>
> This patch adds a new --enable-codesign configure option so that this
> step can be automated.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog
> 2018-06-28 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
>
> * NEWS: Mention --enable-codesign.
> * silent-rules.mk (ECHO_SIGN): New variable.
> * configure.ac: Add --enable-codesign.
> * configure: Rebuild.
> * Makefile.in (CODESIGN, CODESIGN_CERT): New variables.
> (gdb$(EXEEXT)): Optionally invoke codesign.
> ---
> gdb/ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
> gdb/Makefile.in | 7 +++++++
> gdb/NEWS | 7 +++++++
> gdb/configure | 11 +++++++++++
> gdb/configure.ac | 7 +++++++
> gdb/silent-rules.mk | 1 +
> 6 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
> index a125b72e420..08271641370 100644
> --- a/gdb/ChangeLog
> +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
> +2018-06-28 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> +
> + * NEWS: Mention --enable-codesign.
> + * silent-rules.mk (ECHO_SIGN): New variable.
> + * configure.ac: Add --enable-codesign.
> + * configure: Rebuild.
> + * Makefile.in (CODESIGN, CODESIGN_CERT): New variables.
> + (gdb$(EXEEXT)): Optionally invoke codesign.
> +
> 2018-06-27 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
OK for the NEWS part, but I think we should reflect this option in the
output of "gdb --configure", because users will want to know whether
their GDB was configured that way.
Thanks.