Re: Problems building GDB.

[Bob Wirka <bobwirka at yahoo dot com>]

James,

Reference a reply by Charles Wilson to a similar
question. Wed 4/25; "RE:Insight build errors occur
after updating new version of cygwin!".

Charles Wilson puts the blame on a bug in gcc.

Bob Wirka

--- James Hatch <james@autonomoussolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to build the current gdb, and I'm not
> having very much luck.
> Here's an excerpt from the build:
> 
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/james/build-gdb/tcl/cygwin'
> gcc -DPACKAGE=\"libtcl_cygwin\" -DVERSION=\"8.0\"
> -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_OPE
> NDIR
> =1 -DHAVE_STRSTR=1 -DHAVE_STRTOL=1 -DHAVE_TMPNAM=1
> -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DNO_VAL
> UES_
> H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DUSE_TERMIOS=1
> -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TI
> ME=1
>  -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1
> -DNO_UNION_WAIT=1 -DNEED_MATHERR=1 -DR
> ETSI
> GTYPE=void -DHAVE_SIGNED_CHAR=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1
>  -I. -I../../../gdb-200
> 0112
> 5-1/tcl/cygwin 
> -I../../../gdb-20001125-1/tcl/cygwin/../generic  
> -D__TCL_UN
> IX_V
> ARIANT -DTCL_LIBRARY='"/usr/local/share/tcl8.0"'
> -DTCL_PACKAGE_PATH='"NONE/l
> ib"'
>  -g -O2 -c
>
../../../gdb-20001125-1/tcl/cygwin/../generic/tclEnv.c
> In file included from
> /usr/include/w32api/windef.h:145,
>                  from
> /usr/include/w32api/windows.h:98,
>                  from
>
../../../gdb-20001125-1/tcl/cygwin/../generic/tclEnv.c:750
> :
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:48: parse error before
> `CCHAR'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:48: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:68: parse error before
> `*'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:68: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:69: parse error before
> `*'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:69: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:79: parse error before
> `TCHAR'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:79: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:82: parse error before
> `TBYTE'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:82: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:83: parse error before
> `*'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:83: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:84: parse error before
> `*'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:84: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
> class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:103: parse error before
> `*'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:103: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
>  class
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:104: parse error before
> `*'
> /usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:104: warning: data
> definition has no type or
> storage
>  class
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm trying to build a cross-development system using
> cygwin, but I
> haven't been very successful to this point.  I've
> got a
> compiler/libraries for my cross-development
> environment, but I was
> hoping to use GDB to debug using BDM.
> 
> 
> P.S.  After several unsuccesful compilation
> attempts, I tried un-tarring
> the archive again and when I did I got a huge group
> of error messages
> about not being able to extract files because the
> directories they went
> in didn't exist.  (The tix, tcl, itcl, tk
> directories in the top-level
> of the tar.gz).   Help, Please.
> 
> Thanks in Advance for any help or direction someone
> can give me on this.
> 
> 
> P.P.S.  Can I use a Canadian-cross (ie a linux
> hosted pc-cygwin targeted =
>  crosscompiler to build a gdb cross-debugger for
> powerpc-eabi) to solve =
> this problem.=20
> 
> 
> 
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