Problem building GDB for sparc-rtems

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/19/2011 10:53 AM, David Paterson wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Keith Seitz<keiths@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/16/2011 09:34 AM, David Paterson wrote:

>      cd build.gdb-7.2/
>      rm -rf *
>
>      ../../GCCSources/gdb-7.2/configure  --target=sparc-rtems4.10.0
FWIW (should not matter, here): The offical target name is 
"sparc-rtems4.10".

> --disable-shared --disable-nls \
>      --disable-werror --disable-sim --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
> --prefix=/usr/local/SParcRtems
>
>      make all
>      make install
>
> (run from a script file, rather than command line, but that also gives the same
> result, as I tried it in case there was some script environment problem).
>
> For reference, I'm also using gmp-5.0.1, mpfr-3.0.1, mpc-0.9, binutils-2.21,
> gcc-4.5.2 and newlib-1.19.0 (of course not all of those are used for GDB).
>
>> FWIW, I just built sparc-rtems on linux (Fedora 13) without incident from
>> the 7.2 tarball, so it should work for you, too.
I am building all *-rtems targets fairly frequently without many 
problems (cf. ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/linux/4.11).

However gdb's dependencies are a royal pain and occasionally cause 
building gdb produce bizarre errors. Which host OS are you using?
Did you check the output "running configure" produces? Occasionally, 
such build errors have their origin much earilier in the build-process,

> Interesting.  I'll try building some other targets as well, and see if
> it's purely a
> Sparc problem.  I should have thought to try that...

I'd guess on one of the usual supects: Do you have '.' in $PATH? Which 
CFLAGS are you using? Does your pwd contain white spaces?

Did you check the output "configure produces"?


Ralf