Problems with building - part II [gdb 6.0]

Problems with building - part II [gdb 6.0]

[Roland Zerek]

Hello again,

At the beginning I would like to tank for your answers on my first letter.

The environment I am workin with is the following:
*) operating system: winXP home edition
*) compiler: gcc 3.2 (CYGWIN 2.249.2.5)

The build process went differently than before
(http://rolandz.fm.interia.pl/gdb/1.html). Then it seemed to be problems
with file names really (spaces within them). However, now these probles
alterred with more real ones: compile or link errors. The full build log is
at http://rolandz.fm.interia.pl/gdb/2.html

I am really not very familiar with GDB internals and it is very hard job for
me to find the problem. So I am asking you for help again. TIA.

A'propos spaces in file names: I think this problem does not exist in
unix-like systems anymore. So why it does here. The matter of notation?

-- 
Roland Żerek

Re: Problems with building - part II [gdb 6.0]

[Andrew Cagney]

> Hello again,
> 
> At the beginning I would like to tank for your answers on my first letter.
> 
> The environment I am workin with is the following:
> *) operating system: winXP home edition
> *) compiler: gcc 3.2 (CYGWIN 2.249.2.5)
> 
> The build process went differently than before
> (http://rolandz.fm.interia.pl/gdb/1.html). Then it seemed to be problems
> with file names really (spaces within them). However, now these probles
> alterred with more real ones: compile or link errors. The full build log is
> at http://rolandz.fm.interia.pl/gdb/2.html
> 
> I am really not very familiar with GDB internals and it is very hard job for
> me to find the problem. So I am asking you for help again. TIA.
> 
> A'propos spaces in file names: I think this problem does not exist in
> unix-like systems anymore. So why it does here. The matter of notation?

FYI,

If I try to build GDB in a directory with spaces on a UNIX system, 
similar problems occure.

$ pwd
/tmp/sp ce
$ .../configure && make
...
creating calc.h
cd: can't cd to /tmp/sp
$

The immediate problem here isn't with windows.  Rather its with the 
existing build system which is just not tooled up to handle spaces in 
file names.   The only reason that this appears to be windows specific 
is because only windows systems tend to have spaces in files (on windows 
creating a file with a space is easy, on UNIX it's pain).

However, also note that, for similar reasons, once GDB is built it will 
have problems: GDB will not open symbol files if there is a space in the 
filename or path
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=535

Andrew

Re: Problems with building - part II [gdb 6.0]

[Roland Zerek]

> > A'propos spaces in file names: I think this problem does not exist in
> > unix-like systems anymore. So why it does here. The matter of notation?

> If I try to build GDB in a directory with spaces on a UNIX system,
> similar problems occure.

> $ pwd
> /tmp/sp ce
> $ .../configure && make
> ...
> creating calc.h
> cd: can't cd to /tmp/sp
> $

> The immediate problem here isn't with windows.  Rather its with the
> existing build system which is just not tooled up to handle spaces in
> file names.

Yes, I agree. I've forgotten that the build environment might be
incorrect...

> The only reason that this appears to be windows specific
> is because only windows systems tend to have spaces in files (on windows
> creating a file with a space is easy, on UNIX it's pain).

Anyway, it looks the makefile is not perfect. In most cases (unix/linux) it
works, but if something is not quite standard then problems come.

> However, also note that, for similar reasons, once GDB is built it will
> have problems: GDB will not open symbol files if there is a space in the
> filename or path

(Un)fortunatelly, I've already noticed it. It costed me few hours ;-( Only I
wonder, what if file names being put into quotations...

Roland