Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange SEGVproblem]]

[Tim Mooney <mooney at dogbert dot cc dot ndsu dot nodak dot edu>]

In regard to: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange...:

>Tim Mooney wrote:
>
>> >Could you force the compilation to continue and see if there are any
>> >other errors.
>> 
>> After fixing the pointer comparison problem so the build will continue on
>> the alpha, I verified that the build completes on
>
>Thanks, I've committed the attached patch to the gdb-5.0 branch and the
>trunk.

Thanks Andrew.  I'll try test again on all platforms this weekend.

>At present the gdb-5.0/TODO file contains:
>
>> GDB doesn't build under IRIX6.4
>> 
>> Benjamin Gamsa wrote:
>> 
>> Has anyone successfully built the latest (from cvs) gdb on IRIX6.4 or
>> later?  The first problem I hit is that proc-api.c includes
>> sys/user.h, which no longer exists under IRIX6.4.  If I comment out
>> that include, the next problem I hit is that PIOCGETPR and PIOCGETU
>> are no longer defined in IRIX6.4 (presumably related to the
>> disappearance of user.h).
>
>so IRIX 6.x is a known problem.  If someone comes up with a simple small
>self contained patch in time for gdb-5.0 then it might go in.  I suspect
>that getting it sorted in 5.1 is a better option.  This is consistent
>with FreeBSD and a few other platforms.

Sounds good.  I was just surprised to see that recent cvs wouldn't build,
sinc 4.18 will build fine on the same platform.  Looking through the code
I can see there have been a lot of changes, though, so it's not such a
surprise.

I'm inexperienced when it comes to coding at this level so I don't think I
would be able to provide a patch to help you out, but if I can help by
testing builds or doing header or man page mining, let me know.

Tim
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