gdb failing to build on RHEL 6

[Joel Brobecker]

> I have tried it with both the official 7.8.1 release from the ftp site
> and the current head from the git repository - commit
> 8908fca5772fcff9f7766158ba2aa59f5a2b1f68.
> 
> I googled the error but all I found was a post on this forum from last
> June with someone reporting the same problem
> (http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-06/msg00007.html).  The only
> response said there had been a broken commit, but no work-around was
> given.  I find it hard to believe that it is the same issue and that
> gdb has been released in a state where it would not build.
> 
> So what am I missing?  Or doing wrong?  Or is the release itself
> broken?  How do I fix it and get a working build?

version.c is create by a Makefile rule that calls
gdb/common/create-version.sh.

I would check your build logs to see if that script got called,
and if it did, then whether it printed any error or not.

-- 
Joel