Re: Patch for arm-linux gdbserver

["William A. Gatliff" <bgat@billgatliff.com>]

Peter:


After I built my arm-linux toolchain, I built ncurses:


$ BUILD_CC=gcc CXX=arm-linux-g++ CC=arm-linux-gcc ../ncurses-5.2/configure --host=arm-linux --build=i386-linux --prefix=/home/bgat/H-arm-cerfpod-linux-gnu
$ make all install

It dies when it runs "tic" during installation, for the obvious
reason: tic is a target executable, not a build one.  No problem, you
get libtermcap anyway.  :^)

I also built bfd, using a similar command, so that gdb would find a bfd.h.

Then I successfully configured gdb (cvs), like this:

$ ../gdb/configure --host=arm-linux --build=i386-linux --prefix=/home/bgat/H-arm-cerfpod-linux-gnu

So far, so far... :^)


b.g.


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Peter Barada wrote:
> 
> >Simply configure with --host=powerpc-linux.  Then run configure
> >separately in the gdbserver directory if it did not get done, and make.
> >
> >Note that to do that first step $CC must be a cross compiler.
> >
> >Also note that PPC support for gdbserver is not currently available,
> >and may go in in a few days depending on some other factors.
> 
> Ok, I built a m68k-linux compiler, and attempted:
> 
> CC=m68k-linux-gcc AR=m68k-linux-ar RANLIB=m68k-linux-ranlib LD=m68k-linux-ld /home/pbarada/work/cvs-wavemark/cross-linux-tools/gdb-5.0.93/configure --host=m68k-linux
> 
> To configure a m68k-linux version of gdbserver to be built on my x86
> box.  Unfortunately configure fails.  From gleaning over the output, I
> see two things, the first I'm not sure about and the second is a problem:
> 
> Created "Makefile" in /home/pbarada/work/cvs-wavemark/cross-linux-tools/obj-crap-linux/m68k-linux/build-gdb using "mt-frag"
> /home/pbarada/work/cvs-wavemark/cross-linux-tools/gdb-5.0.93/configure: ./if1747: cannot execute binary file
> Configuring intl...
> creating cache ../config.cache
> 
> I don't think configure should try to run a cross-compiled
> executable...
> 
> checking compiler warning flags...  -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
> checking for cygwin... no
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
> configure: error: Could not find a term library
> Configure in /home/pbarada/work/cvs-wavemark/cross-linux-tools/obj-crap-linux/m68k-linux/build-gdb/gdb failed, exiting.
> 
> Since I'm not trying to run *gdb* on the target, but just *gdbserver*,
> how can I get configure to ignore the missing term library and produce
> a proper configuration?  This is the problem I had the last time I did
> this, and ended up resorting to configureing it by *hand*.
> 
> -- 
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> 

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Bill Gatliff
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