Error in gdb make

Wed Aug 5 17:39:00 GMT 2009

gdb version: 6.8
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro Alves" <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org, tromey@redhat.com
Cc: "Praveen S. Solanki" <psolanki@ccs.neu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:35:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Error in gdb make

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 18:16:44, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Praveen" == Praveen S Solanki <psolanki@ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> 
> Praveen> It seems that the newer libc don't consider it appropriate if
> Praveen> the return values of libc function is not used. This causes
> Praveen> make to fail.
> 
> Please be more specific.  What exact error?  What compiler?  What
> operating system?

... and what GDB version.  It sounds like he's referring to warnings
from glibc's (ab)use of warn_unused_result, which Jim Blandy
fixed months ago:

 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-12/msg00243.html
 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-01/msg00050.html

-- 
Pedro Alves