gdb retargetting

[Rick Richardson <rickr@mn.rr.com>]

Maybe someone can help me, maybe not.  Here's the deal:
  
1) I retargetted binutils to support a new processor.  I started with
   binutils-2.12.1 from the GNU ftp site.  That work is complete.
  
2) I grabbed gdb-5.2.1 and merged the gdb directories with my now-modified
   binutils tree.  This meant I just copied the gdb, malloc, readline, sim,
   and utils directories from the gdb tree to the combined tree.
  
3) As a check that everything is buildable in the combined tree, I
   configured for i386 (default) on linux, and did a "make".  I wanted
   to make sure that I started from a buildable tree before I hack on
   the gdb and sim directories to support the new processor.
  
4) Everything built fine until it got to gdb/gdbserver.  It exploded
   compiling utils.c:
  
        In file included from utils.c:22:
        server.h:37:25: gdb/signals.h: No such file or directory
  
5) No question, there is no gdb/signals.h included in the gdb-5.2.1.tar.gz
   file that I got from ftp.gnu.org.  Nor is there one in gdb-5.2.tar.gz.

What gives?  I'm beginning to suspect that nobody compiles the
snapshots on the GNU ftp site.  Should I have started from some other
snapshots?  I'm completely learing of basing off of "the tip" of the
CVS tree, as I have no idea when that is stable.  So I thought basing
off of the GNU snapshots would be the way to go.

-Rick

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