Re: Gdbserver with powerpc

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:43:35AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> stefania magistrali wrote:
> > I am developing a powerpc (860) board. I need to compile gdb for my host
> > (Intel with Linux) and gdbserver for target. I configured the system
> > like this:
> > 
> > for gdb: ./configure --target=powerpc-linux
> > and for gdbserver: ./configure powerpc-linux (then I set CC=cross
> > compiler for powerpc)
> > 
> > I have problems with gdbserver, I can't compile it. There are 2
> > problems:
> > 1) when I compile it, the utils.c file loads the server.h file and this
> > loads the ../defs.h file (gdb/defs.h) where it is included the config.h
> > file (gdb/config.h). But that file is created when I configured gdb 
> > (with the host=Intel and target=powerpc) and so, p.e. it is defined
> > HAVE_SYS_REG_H, when I haven't the file sys/reg.h for powerpc.
> > Have I to configure it in a different way?
> 
> Yes; you have to configure and build gdb as if you wanted it to
> run native on the ppc; only then can you configure and build gdbserver.
> 
> > 2) In low-linux.c there is a source code for Intel and m68k, I have to
> > add code for powerpc? If so, do you know if someone has already done it?
> 
> Heh.  gdbserver is broken at the moment.  I posted recently with
> almost identical questions.  There is talk of fixing it, but I
> don't know if anyone's working on it.  Similarly, there's talk
> of making it handle multithreaded programs, but I don't know
> if anyone's working on that, either.
> - Dan

Both.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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