Help with compiling GDB for PPC

[Sachin Rao]

Thanks, & do I need to change the include path in the Makefile to point
to the native PPC Linux include path? I could not find the reference to
the path anywhere in the generated Makefile...

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Sachin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:18 PM
To: Sachin Rao
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Help with compiling GDB for PPC

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:53:41PM -0800, Sachin Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a rather old version of GDB (5.2.1) cross-compiled for the PPC
> target. I wish to use the latest GDB source to compile a newer version
> of GDB using the native PPC compiler toolchain that we have. For this
I
> tried 
> 
> ./configure --target=powerpc-hardhat-linux
--host=powerpc-hardhat-linux
> 
>  And then modified the CC, LD, AS, AR defines in the Makefile to point
> to the respective native PPC compiler tools, but the build failed,
first
> in the readline module. 
> 
> I wanted to know if iam going about it the right way, or is there a
> better way to accomplish this task?

You need to set one autoconf variable for readline in order for this to
work, I think it's bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=yes.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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