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Re: Help with compiling GDB for PPC

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Sachin Rao <Sachin at sinett dot com>
Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:48:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Help with compiling GDB for PPC
References: <BB6D74C75CC76A419B6D6FA7C38317B2CC2464@sinett-sbs.SiNett.LAN>

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:53:41PM -0800, Sachin Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a rather old version of GDB (5.2.1) cross-compiled for the PPC
> target. I wish to use the latest GDB source to compile a newer version
> of GDB using the native PPC compiler toolchain that we have. For this I
> tried 
> 
> ./configure --target=powerpc-hardhat-linux --host=powerpc-hardhat-linux
> 
>  And then modified the CC, LD, AS, AR defines in the Makefile to point
> to the respective native PPC compiler tools, but the build failed, first
> in the readline module. 
> 
> I wanted to know if iam going about it the right way, or is there a
> better way to accomplish this task?

You need to set one autoconf variable for readline in order for this to
work, I think it's bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=yes.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- Help with compiling GDB for PPC
  - From: Sachin Rao

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