From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Charles Wilkins" To: "David Taylor" Cc: "gdb mailing list" Subject: Re: gdb warning Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <002f01c0e86a$d6e6c800$2b6e60cf@cg470161b> References: <200105291805.OAA18806@houston.candd.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00340.html Here is my config.status: #!/bin/sh # This file was generated automatically by configure. Do not edit. # This directory was configured as follows: ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --norecursion # using "mt-frag" the target and host are one and the same ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Taylor" To: "Charles Wilkins" Cc: ; "Kevin Buettner" Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:05 PM Subject: Re: gdb warning > From: "Charles Wilkins" > Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:34:47 -0400 > > > Also, which host and target are you having problems on? > > forgive my ignorance what do you mean by host and target? > > Charles > > When you are configuring GDB, you have the ability to specify a host > and a target. The host is the machine on which gdb will be run; the > target it the machine for which gdb will debug programs. > > Since you asked what they are, I would guess that you specified > neither; in which case they default to the machine on which the > configure is being run (the build machine). So, then assuming you are > trying to configure, build, and use GDB in a native environment, the > question becomes -- what system are you trying this on? > > Put another way, in your build tree, what does the top level > config.status file give as the value of --host? >