Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 11 release branch created!

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 11 release branch created!

[Joel Brobecker]

[switching to gdb-patches]

> > The prerelease snapshots will be available at:
> >
> >     ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/gdb.tar.xz
> 
> The tarball contains the file gdb/doc/GDBvn.texi which is a generated
> file depending on the configuration.  This breaks building with
> --with-system-readline.

Thanks for the heads up, Andreas.

In skimming through the commits, I think the following change is
responsible for this change of behavior:

    commit ab954e4a53cab8c33728e6708695abc1616c90b1
    Author: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
    Date:   Wed Nov 25 18:52:49 2020 +0100
    Subject: Fix building gdb release from tar file without makeinfo

    Add GDBvn.texi and version.subst to the release tar file,
    so the gdb.info does not need makeinfo.

    This avoids the need for makeinfo to be available.

    2020-12-04  Bernd Edlinger  <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>

            * Makefile.in: Delete GDBvn.texi and version.subst only in
            the maintainer-clean target.

I don't understand how this has an impact on building GDB, though.

So, I tried configuring GDB with --with-system-readline, did a "make"
and "make install". It worked with both in-tree and out-of-tree builds.

-- 
Joel

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 11 release branch created!

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 04 2021, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> So, I tried configuring GDB with --with-system-readline, did a "make"
> and "make install". It worked with both in-tree and out-of-tree builds.

Did you rebuild gdb.info?

Andreas.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 11 release branch created!

[Joel Brobecker]

> > So, I tried configuring GDB with --with-system-readline, did a "make"
> > and "make install". It worked with both in-tree and out-of-tree builds.
> 
> Did you rebuild gdb.info?

That's something I forgot to mention about what I did.
I did a make & make install in gdb.doc. Is that sufficient?

Can you be more precise and say exactly what command you used to
configure and build, and what error you got?

-- 
Joel

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 11 release branch created!

[Andreas Schwab]

make[4]: Entering directory '/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/gdb-11.0.90/build-x86_6
4-suse-linux/gdb/doc'
(test "ln -s" = "ln -s" && \
  ln -s ../../../gdb/doc/all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi) || \
ln ../../../gdb/doc/all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi || \
cp ../../../gdb/doc/all-cfg.texi gdb-cfg.texi
makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000  -DHAVE_MAKEINFO_CLICK  -I ../../../gdb/doc/../mi -I ../../../gdb/doc \
        -o gdb.info ../../../gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
gdb.texinfo:38181: @include: could not find rluser.texi
gdb.texinfo:38182: @include: could not find hsuser.texi
gdb.texinfo:38649: warning: @inforef is obsolete.
gdb.texinfo:25795: @xref reference to nonexistent node `Command Line Editing'
gdb.texinfo:25827: @xref reference to nonexistent node `Using History Interactively'
gdb.texinfo:25923: @xref reference to nonexistent node `Event Designators'
gdb.texinfo:28529: @pxref reference to nonexistent node `Command Line Editing'
gdb.texinfo:172: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Command Line Editing'
gdb.texinfo:173: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Using History Interactively'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:491: gdb.info] Error 1

Andreas.

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