Re: build/955: build failure with GDB-5.3: sparc-nat.c structure redefinition errors with sparc64-linux, glibc-2.2.x

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Christian Joensson stipulated:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:29:05AM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Christian Joensson uttered the following:
>> > uhm, just tried gdb cvs HEAD, as of Sun Aug 24 12:01:38 UTC 2003, same thing:
>> 
>> I'm back, at last.
>> 
>> > In file included from /usr/include/asm/reg.h:7,
>> >                  from /home/chj/src/gdb/sparc-nat.c:38:
>> > /usr/include/asm-sparc64/reg.h:49: error: redefinition of `struct fpu'
>> 
>> sparc64? Are you trying to build a 64-bit gdb?
> 
> uhm, yes, to debug 64-bit binaries....

Oh, OK, so a lot of my suppositions are incorrect.

> uhm, a 64-bit gdb is not that easy to accomplish, I guess, but
> there'll be one in a future Aurora SPARC Linux, a development
> gdb64-5.2-ish src rpm is available:

sparc-nat.c hasn't changed much since 5.3 (although it's changing like
billyo on the SPARC branch of course). You could always grab the
gdb64-5.2 and see what's been done to sparc-nat.c in there, but it makes
more sense to try to forward-port the whole lot (diffing against
gdb-5.2-release, I guess, or see if the author posted a patch anywhere).

Of course doing this is a bit pointless if the author of that patch is
forward-porting it right now or kept it in synch with GDB CVS, which is
not beyond the bounds of possibility.

> ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/scratch

Snarfing gdb64, this could be interesting :)

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