gdb-6.8 not available

[Yann E. MORIN]

Sherman, All,

On 2013-05-14 15:52 -0700, Sherman K. Yin spake thusly:
> 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.

1.9.3 is an old version. Latest is 1.18.0. Please upgrade.

>  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'.
> 
> I think that's because it's no longer available according to
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/.

Indeed. Long story short: some C files included in gdb releases were
generated from other files which were not bundled in the releases, thus
the gdb releases were not compliant with the licensing terms of those
files, and so were re-generated. Ditto for binutils.

It was requested that symlinks were provided so that already-deployed
build systems (such as, but not limited to crosstool-NG) would not break.
While the binutils folks agreed to set up such legacy symlinks, the gdb
folks flatly refused. Hence the breakage.

>  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'

That's been long fixed. Please upgrade.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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