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RE: gdb build error
- From: "Ray Duran" <Ray dot Duran at FutureElectronics dot com>
- To: "Joel Brobecker" <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:40:47 -0400
- Subject: RE: gdb build error
Hi Joel,
Yes, I do see a warning before my error that says:
"Warning: ada-lex.c older than ada-lex.l and flex not available".
However, I have done a search of ada-lex.c and cannot find anywhere.
That in fact make the message a bit of an anomaly, since the warning
says that ada-lex.c is older but it does not exist.
If I re-downloaded insight tar 6.5 or an earlier version could I
configure and build
Insight over what I have already done? There isn't any need for deleting
old insight stuff?
Thanks,
-Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Brobecker [mailto:brobecker@adacore.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:18 PM
To: Ray Duran; gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb build error
> > You'll need flex to generate ada-lex.c. Has this tool been installed
> > on your machine?
>
> Wasn't this supposed to be pregenerated in release tarballs?
Humpf, of course, I should have paid more attention to the version
number. I just double-checked, it is part of the release tarball.
The only scenario that I can think of that might lead to this problem
would be that the timestamp of ada-lex.c somehow became earlier than
the timestamp of ada-lex.l, so the Makefile determined that ada-lex.c
should be rebuilt.
When I unpacked the sources from gnu.org on a linux machine, the
timestamps were in the right order.
While we look at this, the obvious workaround that would work, assuming
my theory is right, would be to "touch gdb/ada-lex.c" before doing the
build.
--
Joel