Cross Compiling GDB

[Chris.Pedley@arm.com]

On 20/08/2003 14:05:30 gdb-owner wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:20:47AM +0100, Chris.Pedley@arm.com wrote:
>> I presume that the GDB at the following location isn't cygwin specific?
>> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-5.3.tar.gz
>>
>> However, if you look at line 53 in gdb-5.3/readline/configure.in then
>> it issues the error given above if cross compiling for a non-cygwin
>> target.
>>
>> Also my questions about build, host and target have been raised
>> because I'm unsure about the check for a cross compiler at line 123
>> in gdb-5.3/configure.in.  This checks whether the host and target
>> are the same thing, and only assumes it is a cross compiler if they
>> are different.  Why isn't this actually checking build and host?
>
>Can you be a little clearer what you're trying to do?
>
>First of all, that seems like a really lame bug in readline.  But it's
>easily fixable.  But second, do you want a cross debugger or a native
>debugger for a non-cygwin host?  $is_cross_compiler is whether the GCC
>being built will be a cross compiler - that configure script is shared
>with GDB.  That's a host vs target issue.

So is it definitely a bug, and is it definitely possible to cross compile
gdb
for other systems than cygwin?

I'm trying to build a gdb debugger to be run on ARM Linux to debug apps
natively running under ARM Linux.  I will be building gdb using the
arm-linux-gcc cross compiler on an Intel box, so was trying to configure
with:
target=arm-linux
build=i386-linux
host=arm-linux
with-headers=<path to kernel sources>/linux-2.4.19/include

This will fail because it will report that with-headers is only supported
when cross compiling.  I'm muddled as to what target, build and host
therefore actually are?

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