gdb-6.8 not available

["Sherman K. Yin" <shermanyin at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

Just a bug report:

Trying this software for the first time today.  I followed the
instructions here: http://crosstool-ng.org and installed
crosstool-ng-1.9.3.tar.bz2 on ubuntu.  While attempting to build the
sample mips-unknown-elf, it attempted to download gdb-6.8 and failed:

[EXTRA]    Retrieving 'gdb-6.8'
[ERROR]    Could not retrieve 'gdb-6.8'.
[00:39] / make: *** [build] Error 1

I think that's because it's no longer available according to
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/.  I tried changing 6.8 to 6.8a in
config/debug/gdb.in and at least the download portion worked. It ran
into something else later:

[INFO ]  Extracting and patching toolchain components
[EXTRA]    Extracting 'gdb-6.8a'
[ERROR]    Build failed in step 'Extracting and patching toolchain components'
[ERROR]    Error happened in
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/functions' in
function 'CT_Pushd' (line unknown, sorry)
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/functions' at line #
792 in function 'CT_Patch'
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh'
at line # 61 in function 'do_debug_gdb_extract'
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/build/debug.sh' at
line # 28 in function 'do_debug_extract'
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/crosstool-NG.sh' at
line # 569 in function 'main'
[ERROR]    Look at '/home/syin/x-tools/mips-unknown-elf/build.log' for
more info on this error.
[ERROR]  (elapsed: 0:06.77)
[00:07] / make: *** [build] Error 1

I haven't looked into this latter error.  Instead, I turned gdb off in
menuconfig because I don't need it.

Thanks,
Sherman

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