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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# * Copyright (c) 2014 Ericsson and others.
+# * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+# * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+# * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+# * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+# *
+# * Contributors:
+# *     Simon Marchi (Ericsson) - Initial implementation
+
+# Stop the script if any command fails
+set -e
+
+# Our work directory
+default_base_dir="$HOME/gdb-all"
+base_dir="${default_base_dir}"
+
+# Passed to make's -j
+default_jlevel="4"
+jlevel="${default_jlevel}"
+
+# Default versions (for when "all" is used)
+default_versions="6.6 6.7.1 6.8 7.0.1 7.1 7.2 7.3.1 7.4.1 7.5.1 7.6.2 7.7.1 7.8.1"
+
+# Is set to "echo" if we are doing a dry-run.
+dryrun=""
+
+# Print help and exit with the specified exit code.
+#
+# $1: The value to pass to exit
+function help_and_exit() {
+  echo "Usage:"
+  echo "  download-build-gdb.sh [OPTIONS] [VERSIONS|all]"
+
+  echo ""
+  echo "Description:"
+  echo "  This script downloads, builds and installs the given versions of gdb."
+  echo "  Passing \"all\" to the script is the same as passing all the supported versions."
+  echo ""
+  echo "Options:"
+  echo "  -b, --base-dir PATH  Set the base directory for downloading, building and "
+  echo "                       installing the gdbs (default: ${default_base_dir})."
+  echo "  -d, --dry-run        Make a dry-run: print the commands instead of executing"
+  echo "                       them."
+  echo "  -h, --help           Print this help message and exit."
+  echo "  -j, --jobs N         Number of parallel jobs while making. N is passed"
+  echo "                       directly to make's -j (default: ${default_jlevel})."
+  echo ""
+  echo "Supported versions:"
+  echo "  ${default_versions}"
+  echo ""
+
+  exit $1
+}
+
+# Output a visible header
+#
+# $1: Text to display
+function echo_header() {
+  echo -e "\e[1m\e[7m>>> $1\e[0m"
+}
+
+
+# Check that the version passed is supported by the script.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function check_supported() {
+  case "$version" in
+    "6.6"|"6.7.1"|"6.8"|"7.0.1"|"7.1"|"7.2"|"7.3.1"|"7.4.1"|"7.5.1"|"7.6.2"|"7.7.1"|"7.8.1")
+      # Supported, do nothing.
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "Version ${version} is not supported, sorry."
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+}
+
+
+# Download the tarball of the given release of gdb.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function download_gdb() {
+  local baseaddr="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb"
+  local version="$1"
+
+  case "$version" in
+    "6.6"|"6.7.1"|"6.8"|"7.0.1"|"7.1"|"7.2")
+      version="${version}a"
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  echo_header "Downloading gdb $version to ${download_dir}"
+
+  ${dryrun} wget --timestamping --directory-prefix "${download_dir}" "${baseaddr}/gdb-${version}.tar.gz"
+}
+
+
+# Extract the gdb tarball.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function extract_gdb() {
+  local version="$1"
+
+  case "$version" in
+    "6.6"|"6.7.1"|"6.8"|"7.0.1"|"7.1"|"7.2")
+      version="${version}a"
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  local archive="${download_dir}/gdb-${version}.tar.gz"
+
+  echo_header "Extracting ${archive} to ${build_dir}"
+
+  ${dryrun} mkdir -p "${build_dir}"
+
+  ${dryrun} tar -xf "${archive}" -C "${build_dir}"
+}
+
+# Make necessary fixes to build an "old" release on a "modern" system.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function fixup_gdb() {
+  local version="$1"
+  local build="${build_dir}/gdb-${version}"
+
+  echo_header "Fixing up gdb ${version}"
+
+  # Disable building of the doc, which fails anyway with older gdbs and
+  # newer makeinfos.
+  ${dryrun} find ${build} -name '*.texinfo' -exec cp "/dev/null" "{}" \;
+
+  # This file tries to include a non-existent file.
+  if [ "$version" = "7.2" ]; then
+    ${dryrun} cp "/dev/null" "${build}/etc/standards.texi"
+  fi
+
+  # glibc or the kernel changed the signal API at some point
+  case "$version" in
+    "6.6"|"6.7.1"|"6.8"|"7.0.1"|"7.1"|"7.2"|"7.3.1"|"7.4.1")
+      ${dryrun} find "${build}/gdb" -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/struct siginfo;/#include <signal.h>/g' {} \;
+      ${dryrun} find "${build}/gdb" -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/struct siginfo/siginfo_t/g' {} \;
+      ;;
+  esac
+}
+
+
+# Run ./configure.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function configure_gdb() {
+  local version="$1"
+
+  local build="${build_dir}/gdb-${version}"
+  local cflags="-Wno-error -g -O0"
+
+  echo_header "Configuring in ${build}"
+
+  ${dryrun} pushd "${build}"
+
+  case "${version}" in
+    "6.7.1"|"6.8")
+      cflags="${cflags} -Wno-error=enum-compare"
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  # Let the user specify some CFLAGS
+  cflags="${cflags} ${CFLAGS}"
+
+  # The ${dryrun} trick doesn't work here, because of the env var.
+  if [ -z "${dryrun}" ]; then
+    CFLAGS="${cflags}" ./configure --prefix="${install_dir}/gdb-${version}"
+  else
+    ${dryrun} CFLAGS="\"${cflags}\"" ./configure --prefix="${install_dir}/gdb-${version}"
+  fi
+
+  ${dryrun} popd
+}
+
+
+# Build gdb.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function make_gdb() {
+  local version="$1"
+
+  local build="${build_dir}/gdb-${version}"
+
+  echo_header "Making in ${build}"
+
+  ${dryrun} pushd "${build}"
+
+  ${dryrun} make -j "${jlevel}"
+
+  ${dryrun} popd
+}
+
+
+# Run make install.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function make_install_gdb() {
+  local version="$1"
+
+  # Only install gdb, not the whole binutils-gdb
+  local install="${build_dir}/gdb-${version}/gdb"
+
+  echo_header "Make installing in ${install}"
+
+  ${dryrun} pushd "${install}"
+
+  ${dryrun} make install
+
+  ${dryrun} popd
+}
+
+
+# Create symlinks in "bin" directory.
+#
+# $1: version number
+function symlink_gdb() {
+  local version="$1"
+
+  echo_header "Creating symlinks for gdb ${version} in ${symlinks_dir}"
+
+  ${dryrun} mkdir -p "${symlinks_dir}"
+  ${dryrun} ln -sf "${install_dir}/gdb-${version}/bin/gdb" "${symlinks_dir}/gdb.${version}"
+  ${dryrun} ln -sf "${install_dir}/gdb-${version}/bin/gdbserver" "${symlinks_dir}/gdbserver.${version}"
+
+  # If the version is a triplet (x.y.z), also create a symlink with just
+  # the first two numbers (x.y).
+  if [[ "$version" =~ [0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9] ]]; then
+    local short_version="${version%.[0-9]}"
+    ${dryrun} ln -sf "${install_dir}/gdb-${version}/bin/gdb" "${symlinks_dir}/gdb.${short_version}"
+    ${dryrun} ln -sf "${install_dir}/gdb-${version}/bin/gdbserver" "${symlinks_dir}/gdbserver.${short_version}"
+  fi
+}
+
+# Start argument parsing
+args=$(getopt -o b:dhj: -l "base-dir:,dry-run,help,jobs" -n "$0" -- "$@");
+
+# Bad arguments ?
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+eval set -- "$args"
+
+while true; do
+  case "$1" in
+  -b|--base-dir)
+    shift
+    base_dir="$1"
+    shift
+    ;;
+  -d|--dry-run)
+    dryrun="echo"
+    shift
+    ;;
+  -h|--help)
+    help_and_exit 0
+    break
+    ;;
+  -j|--jobs)
+    shift
+    jlevel="$1"
+    shift
+    ;;
+  --)
+    shift;
+    break;
+    ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+# Where we download the tarballs
+download_dir="${base_dir}/download"
+
+# Where we extract the tarballs and build
+build_dir="${base_dir}/build"
+
+# Where we make install to
+install_dir="${base_dir}/install"
+
+# Where we will create symlinks to all gdb versions (in the form gdb.x.y)
+# (Hint: this is so you can add this directory to your PATH and have all
+#  versions available quickly.)
+symlinks_dir="${base_dir}/bin"
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "Error: you need to specify at least one gdb version or \"all\"."
+  echo ""
+  help_and_exit 1
+fi
+
+versions=$*
+
+if [ "$versions" = "all" ]; then
+  versions="${default_versions}"
+fi
+
+# End argument parsing
+
+for version in $versions; do
+  check_supported "$version"
+done
+
+for version in $versions; do
+  download_gdb "$version"
+  extract_gdb "$version"
+  fixup_gdb "$version"
+  configure_gdb "$version"
+  make_gdb "$version"
+  make_install_gdb "$version"
+  symlink_gdb "$version"
+done
+
+echo_header "Done!"
+echo ""
+echo "gdb versions built:"
+echo "  ${versions}"
+echo ""
+echo "Symbolic links to binaries have been created in:"
+echo "  ${symlinks_dir}"
+echo ""
+echo "You can add this path to your \$PATH to access them easily."
+echo ""