Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 7.0 released!

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:40:09 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
>             GDB 7.0 released!
> 
> Release 7.0 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous
> FTP.  GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C,
> Pascal and many other languages.  GDB can target (i.e., debug programs
> running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB
> itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows
> variants.

Thanks.

FWIW, it failed to build for me on

   Linux fencepost 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Wed Dec 6 07:32:36 EST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The reason seems to be that it didn't find libiconv:

    gcc -g -O2      \
		    -o gdb gdb.o libgdb.a \
		       ../readline/libreadline.a ../opcodes/libopcodes.a ../bfd/libbfd.a  ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a    -lncurses -lz -lm eliz/lib/libexpat.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,eliz/lib ../libiberty/libiberty.a  gnulib/libgnu.a -ldl -rdynamic
    libgdb.a(charset.o): In function `validate':eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:284: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
    :eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:288: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
    :eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:290: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
    :eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:294: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
    libgdb.a(charset.o): In function `convert_between_encodings':eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:434: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
    :eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:456: undefined reference to `libiconv'
    libgdb.a(charset.o): In function `make_wchar_iterator':eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:540: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
    libgdb.a(charset.o): In function `do_cleanup_iterator':eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:561: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
    libgdb.a(charset.o): In function `wchar_iterate':eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:598: undefined reference to `libiconv'
    libgdb.a(charset.o): In function `cleanup_iconv':eliz/gdb-7.0/gdb/charset.c:412: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Where was it supposed to detect how to link against libiconv?

(I eventually forced it to DTRT by specifying the necessary arguments
to the linker in LOADLIBES.)