Bizzare!

[Dan Alderman <d dot alderman at 180sw dot com>]

Hi,

I don't think I'm being stupid (but then again ... ;-)
I'm trying to compile gdb 5.0 for the arm-elf target.  Following the
standard rules I'm doing the following...

unpack gdb-5.0.tar.gz
make a parallel directory called build-gdb
in build-gdb do...

../gdb-5.0/configure --prefix=/export/usr --target=arm-elf
make
make install

and everything is hunky dory.

However,  if I change the prefix to

--prefix=/home/share/tools/arm-elf

the build barfs with the following error...

make[1]: Entering directory `/export/sources/build-gdb/mmalloc'
gcc -c -g -O2 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_GETPAGESIZE=1 -DHAVE_MMAP=1
-DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_STDDEF_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1  -I.
-I../../gdb-cvs/mmalloc/../include ../../gdb-cvs/mmalloc/mm.c
rm -rf libmmalloc.a
ar rc libmmalloc.a mm.o
ranlib libmmalloc.a
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/sources/build-gdb/mmalloc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/sources/build-gdb/readline'
rm -f readline.o
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I. -I../../gdb-cvs/readline
-I/home/share/tools/arm-elf/include -DRL_LIBRARY_VERSION='"4.0"' -g -O2
../../gdb-cvs/readline/readline.c
../../gdb-cvs/readline/readline.c:234: parse error before
`readline_top_level'
../../gdb-cvs/readline/readline.c:234: warning: data definition has no
type or storage class
make[1]: *** [readline.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/sources/build-gdb/readline'
make: *** [all-readline] Error 2

The target directory is an nfs share, but this shouldn't break things
should it?  Everything else (i.e. binutils, gcc and newlib worked).

Does anyone here know if I can install everything with a prefix that
works and then simply move the directories to another location or is gdb
like gcc in that it will only function in the directory it was installed
into?

Cheers guys and gals,

D.
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