Re: How does one cross-compile gdbserver?

Andrew Cagney
2002-01-30T03:24:11Z

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:28:05PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>> I'm going crazy trying to build gdb 5.1.1's gdbserver
>> in a cross-development environment.
>>
>> Has anyone here build one recently?
>> If so, can you please post your recipe?
>
>
> (Just the day for this answer...)
>
> Same way as anything else! You need to have a compiler capable of
> building target userland binaries, and a development environment set up
> for same. You may need to run configure in the gdbserver directory
> manually, with CC set appropriately. Note that you want a gdb
> configured --host=<your target>, not --target=<>!
>
> I don't give it good odds of compiling. I've tried several times to
> clean that up and gotten stymied in various people's objections to my
> methods (sorry Andrew). I'll be taking another stab at it this week I
> think.

:-)

I've been thinking about making it obsolete. Not that I want to lose
it. Rather that it clears the slate and removes any obligation to keep
other targets working.

The other is to just declare it really broken.

Andrew