[PATCH] nat/fork-inferior: include linux-ptrace.h
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Wed Jun 27 14:30:00 GMT 2018
On 06/27/2018 03:24 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2018-06-25 04:05, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> To decide whether fork() or vfork() should be used, fork-inferior.c
>> uses the following test:
>>
>> Â #if !(defined(__UCLIBC__) && defined(HAS_NOMMU))
>>
>> However, HAS_NOMMU is never defined, because it gets defined in
>> linux-ptrace.h, which is not included by fork-inferior.c. Due to this,
>> gdbserver fails to build on noMMU architectures. This commit fixes
>> that by simply including linux-ptrace.h.
>>
>> This bug was introduced by commit
>> 2090129c36c7e582943b7d300968d19b46160d84 ("Share fork_inferior et al
>> with gdbserver"). Indeed, the same fork()/vfork() selection was done,
>> but in another file where linux-ptrace.h was included.
>>
>> Fixes the following build issue:
>>
>> ../nat/fork-inferior.c: In function 'pid_t fork_inferior(const char*,
>> const string&, char**, void (*)(), void (*)(int), void (*)(), const
>> char*, void (*)(const char*, char* const*, char* const*))':
>> ../nat/fork-inferior.c:376:11: error: 'fork' was not declared in this scope
>> Â Â Â Â pid = fork ();
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ^~~~
>> ../nat/fork-inferior.c:376:11: note: suggested alternative: 'vfork'
>> Â Â Â Â pid = fork ();
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ^~~~
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â vfork
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
>> ---
>> Â gdb/nat/fork-inferior.c | 1 +
>> Â 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/gdb/nat/fork-inferior.c b/gdb/nat/fork-inferior.c
>> index 8b59387fa5..05167628a6 100644
>> --- a/gdb/nat/fork-inferior.c
>> +++ b/gdb/nat/fork-inferior.c
>> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>> Â #include "common-gdbthread.h"
>> Â #include "signals-state-save-restore.h"
>> Â #include "gdb_tilde_expand.h"
>> +#include "linux-ptrace.h"
>> Â #include <vector>
>>
>> Â extern char **environ;
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> fork-inferior.c is also included in native builds for BSDs, AIX, Solaris and Darwin (see gdb/configure.nat). I am a bit concerned that linux-ptrace.h could use some Linux-specific things, and thus would break the other builds. However, I built-tested on FreeBSD and it seems fine. Worst case, we can probably wrap this include in "#ifdef __linux__" if that becomes a problem.
Please don't. It seems very wrong to me to include this header on other hosts.
It is full of Linux-only details.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
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