Re: gdb warning

["Charles Wilkins" <chas at pcscs dot com>]

Here is my config.status:

#!/bin/sh
# This file was generated automatically by configure.  Do not edit.
# This directory was configured as follows:
./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --norecursion 
#  using "mt-frag"

the target and host are one and the same

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Taylor" <taylor@candd.org>
To: "Charles Wilkins" <chas@pcscs.com>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>; "Kevin Buettner" <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: gdb warning


>     From: "Charles Wilkins" <chas@pcscs.com>
>     Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:34:47 -0400
> 
>     > Also, which host and target are you having problems on?
> 
>     forgive my ignorance what do you mean by host and target?
> 
>     Charles
> 
> When you are configuring GDB, you have the ability to specify a host
> and a target.  The host is the machine on which gdb will be run; the
> target it the machine for which gdb will debug programs.
> 
> Since you asked what they are, I would guess that you specified
> neither; in which case they default to the machine on which the
> configure is being run (the build machine).  So, then assuming you are
> trying to configure, build, and use GDB in a native environment, the
> question becomes -- what system are you trying this on?
> 
> Put another way, in your build tree, what does the top level
> config.status file give as the value of --host?
>