This is tracking bug according to https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Obsoleting-code: GCC has obsoleted/removed support for Solaris 9 in GCC 4.9/5 in 2013: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-05/msg00728.html While gdb 7.12.1 can still be built (only with --disable-build-with-cxx), the 8.0 branch and trunk cannot, and it seems a waste of time to even try to make it work. Therefore, support will be removed for the gdb 8.1 release. Rainer
Patch posted.
The master branch has been updated by Rainer Orth <ro@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=281c4447738409888d9659924937da182a65b4e1 commit 281c4447738409888d9659924937da182a65b4e1 Author: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Date: Tue Sep 26 15:19:10 2017 +0200 Remove support for Solaris < 10 (PR gdb/22185) Given that GCC has obsoleted/removed support for Solaris 9 in GCC 4.9/5 in 2013: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-05/msg00728.html and the last gdb version that can be compiled with gcc 4.9 is 7.12.1 only when configured with --disable-build-with-cxx, it's time to obsolete/remove support for Solaris < 10. This patch does this, simplifying configure.nat along the way (only a single sol2 configuration with variants for i386 and sparc). Some configure checks for older Solaris versions can go, too, and the check for libthread_db.so.1 removed: * Since Solaris 10, dlopen has moved to libc and libdl.so is just a filter on ld.so.1, so no need to check. * $RDYNAMIC is already handled above (and is a no-op with Solaris ld anyway). Both proc-service.c and sol-thread.c lose support for (Solaris-only) PROC_SERVICE_IS_OLD. The attached revised patch has been tested on sparcv9-sun-solaris2.10, sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11.4, amd64-pc-solaris2.10, amd64-pc-solaris2.11.4, and x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. I've also started an i386-pc-solaris2.9 build to check that it really stops as expected. PR gdb/22185 * configure.host <*-*-solaris2.[01], *-*-solaris2.[2-9]*>: Mark as obsolete. Use gdb_host sol2 for i[34567]86-*-solaris2*, x86_64-*-solaris2*. Remove i386sol2 support. * configure.nat <i386sol2>: Remove. <sol2-64>: Fold into ... <sol2>: ... this. Move common settings to default section. Add sol-thread.o. * configure.tgt <i[34567]86-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*, x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*>: Rename to ... <i[34567]86-*-solaris2*, x86_64-*-solaris2*>: ... this. <i[34567]86-*-solaris*>: Remove. <sparc-*-solaris2.[0-6], sparc-*-solaris2.[0-6].*>: Remove. * configure.ac: Remove wctype in libw check. (_MSE_INT_H): Don't define on Solaris 7-9. <solaris*>: Remove libthread_db.so.1 check. * configure: Regenerate. * config.in: Regenerate. * proc-service.c: Remove PROC_SERVICE_IS_OLD handling. (gdb_ps_prochandle_t, gdb_ps_read_buf_t, gdb_ps_write_buf_t) (gdb_ps_size_t): Remove. Use base types in users. * sol-thread.c: Likewise, also for gdb_ps_addr_t. * NEWS (Changes since GDB 8.0): Document Solaris 2.0-9 removal.
gdb-announce, gdb FYI posted https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2017-09/msg00128.html Closing. Rainer