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

[Dan Kegel]

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...
- Dan