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Re: gdb warning
- To: "David Taylor" <taylor at candd dot org>
- Subject: Re: gdb warning
- From: "Charles Wilkins" <chas at pcscs dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:11:53 -0400
- Cc: "gdb mailing list" <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <200105291805.OAA18806@houston.candd.org>
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?
>