Cross Compiling GDB

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Tue Aug 19 17:43:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Chris.Pedley@arm.com wrote:
> Is it actually possible to cross compile GDB for anything other than
> cygwin.  In the output from ./configure when trying to configure for cross
> compiling using the GNU ARM tools I get the message:
>     configure: cross-compiling for a non-cygwin target is not supported
> 
> Also, can anyone confirm to me what the exact definitions of host, target
> and build are when passed to ./configure?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chris Pedley,  Graduate Engineer
> Intellectual Property Solutions Division
> ARM Ltd, 110 Fulbourn Rd, Cambridge CB1 9NJ UK
> Tel : +44 1223 400847     Fax: +44 1223 400410

It sounds like you're using the Cygwin sources for GDB.  If you're not
building a Cygwin-targeted GDB, don't do that - or direct comments to
the cygwin list.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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