Re: gdb-19990209 on sparc-2.5.1

[Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>]

   Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:29:50 +0100
   From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>

   Stan Shebs wrote:
   > Actually - everybody hold on to your hats - this isn't the first time
   > that GDB has been compiled with compilers other than GCC. :-)  The
   > official expectation is that GDB is portable C code, and that it can
   > be compiled and built by any reasonable C compiler.

   Ok, after I read that, I dl'd gdb-19990209.tar.gz. Is that really
   the lastest snapshot (4.17.86) everybody is talking about?

No.  4.17.86 is similar to 19990209, but comes from a branch that was
sprouted from the trunk on 15 Feb, and includes a bunch of little
fixes that were done as part of the pre-release testing process.
19990209 is derived from the repository trunk by whacking out
Cygnus-only bits.  You should see fewer problems with 4.17.86.

   Well, anyways, on my sparc-solaris 2.5.1 I did

   setenv CC cc
   ./configure
   make

   and found a few glitches (i.e. warnings :-) and a make error.

   cc is from SunWorkshop Solaris 4.2.

   I attached the output during the build process. I haven't had
   time to look into this further as I will need to go to sleep
   now :-)

Try 4.17.86 instead - I remember something about a configuration
problem in opcodes in a snapshot, that might be the one.

							Stan