Promblem compiling GDB 6.3 on solaris 2.6--don't know how to make target doc/observer.texi

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xing Li Jun, SLC COM TD-SCDMA (BJ)
> Sent: 18 January 2005 08:54
> To: Dave Korn; gdb
> Subject: RE: Promblem compiling GDB 6.3 on solaris 2.6--don't 
> know how to make target doc/observer.texi
> 
> After some trial and error, I successfully compiled gdb. The 
> action I've taken
> is :
> 1. replace the sun make with gmake
> 2. run configure with the full path, instead of the relative 
> path to the build dir.
> 
> thank Dave for your information, anyway!

  I am glad you succeeded.  I think that using GNU make is an absolute
requirement for building gnu projects where srcdir != objdir, because only gmake
supports VPATH, not Sun make.  I have heard of problems with using a relative
instead of absolute path to configure on Sun before, but that was to do with
gcc; maybe it affects gdb as well.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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