newbie question: need arm9 native gdb; how to compile gdb source for arm9?

Dan Kegel dkegel@ixiacom.com
Mon Oct 27 22:19:00 GMT 2003


Hi Ken,
that's odd; all that's between the ***'s in your message are aa bunch
of configure runs.  You didn't actually build anything.
- Dan

Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware) wrote:
> Hi Dan;
> 
>   I did "export PATH=stuff:"
> 
>   The script is between the lines of asterisks...
> 
>   The most recent run can't find nm either :-(
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Monday 27 October 2003 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
>>That all looks fine.  Can't imagine why it didn't find ar.
>>
>>Did you also set PATH when doing the 'make'?  All you show
>>in the script is the 'configure's.
>>- Dan
>>
>>Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware) wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Dan;
>>>
>>>  This is my script to build gdb:
>>>
>>>**************************************************************
>>>#!/bin/bash
>>>
>>>
>>>export
>>>PATH="/tuba_local/crosstool/crosstool-0.24/result/arm-arm9-linux-gnu/gcc-
>>>3.2.1-glibc-2.3.2/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin"
>>>
>>># This builds an arm9 cross gdb...
>>># ../gdb-6.0/configure --target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>>>
>>># This builds a native arm9 gdb using i686-unknown-linux-gnu to build
>>>it... # ../gdb-6.0/configure --host=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>>>--build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>>>
>>># only use arm9 tools?
>>>../gdb-6.0/configure --host=arm-arm9-linux-gnu --build=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>>>--target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>>>**************************************************************
>>>
>>>This is the output of the ls:
>>>**************************************************************
>>>tuba:/tuba_local/gdb_6.0/build_arm9_gdb_6.0_try3> ls
>>>/tuba_local/crosstool/crosstool-0.24/result/arm-arm9-linux-gnu/gcc-3.2.1-
>>>glibc-2.3.2/bin arm-arm9-linux-gnu-addr2line  arm-arm9-linux-gnu-c++filt
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gccbug  arm-arm9-linux-gnu-objcopy
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-size
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar         arm-arm9-linux-gnu-cpp
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gcov    arm-arm9-linux-gnu-objdump
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-strings
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-as         arm-arm9-linux-gnu-g++
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ld      arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ranlib
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-strip
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-c++        arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gcc
>>>arm-arm9-linux-gnu-nm      arm-arm9-linux-gnu-readelf
>>>tuba:/tuba_local/gdb_6.0/build_arm9_gdb_6.0_try3>
>>>**************************************************************
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Ken
>>>
>>>On Monday 27 October 2003 15:15, Dan Kegel wrote:
>>>
>>>>Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>../gdb-6.0/configure \
>>>>>--host=arm-arm9-linux-gnu \
>>>>>--build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu \
>>>>>--target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>>>>>
>>>>>because I want a native arm9 gdb they can run on the board itself.
>>>>>
>>>>>This failed due to:
>>>>>
>>>>>************************************************************************
>>>>>* ********************** arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar rc libiberty.a \
>>>>> regex.o cplus-dem.o cp-demangle.o md5.o alloca.o argv.o choose-temp.o
>>>>>concat.o dyn-string.o fdmatch.o fibheap.o floatformat.o fnmatch.o
>>>>>getopt.o getopt1.o getpwd.o getruntime.o hashtab.o hex.o lbasename.o
>>>>>lrealpath.o make-relative-prefix.o make-temp-file.o objalloc.o obstack.o
>>>>>partition.o physmem.o pex-unix.o safe-ctype.o sort.o spaces.o
>>>>>splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o ternary.o xatexit.o xexit.o
>>>>>xmalloc.o xmemdup.o xstrdup.o xstrerror.o  mkstemps.o
>>>>>make[1]: arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar: Command not found
>>>>>make[1]: *** [libiberty.a] Error 127
>>>>>make[1]: Leaving directory
>>>>>`/tuba_local/gdb_6.0/build_arm9_gdb_6.0_try2/libiberty'
>>>>>make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
>>>>>************************************************************************
>>>>>* **********************
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't have an arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar executeable as a result of running
>>>>>crosstool :-(
>>>>
>>>>What *do* you have as a result of running crosstool?
>>>>Can you do an 'ls' in the bin directory of the toolchain?
>>>>Sounds like maybe you just have a path set wrong...
>>>>
>>>>In other words, don't panic, your toolchain is probably fine...
>>>>- Da
> 
> n



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