Re: gdb 6.3 build fails on Solaris

Louis LeBlanc
2005-05-16T21:55:54Z

On 05/15/05 11:58 PM, Mark Kettenis sat at the `puter and typed:
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:10:01 -0400
> From: Louis LeBlanc <dev@keyslapper.net>
>
> Hey folks. I'm new on this particular list, but I have tried
> searching the archives (and Google) for any solution to my problem.
>
> I've tried building gdb 6.3 on several versions of Solaris, both Intel
> and Sparc architectures, and have yet to see it build completely.
>
> Uh yeah, gdb 6.3 was a bit goofed on SPARC.
>
> On Solaris 8 Sparc, the failure is as follows:
>
> . . .
> gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I../../gdb -I../../gdb/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../gdb/../include/opcode -I../../gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd -I../../gdb/../bfd -I../../gdb/../include -I../intl -I../../gdb/../intl -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wformat-nonliteral -Wunused-label -Wunused-function ../../gdb/procfs.c
> In file included from ../../gdb/procfs.c:37:
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:153: error: parse error before "taskid_t"
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:157: error: parse error before '}' token
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:269: error: parse error before "taskid_t"
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:271: error: conflicting types for `pr_filler'
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:155: error: previous declaration of `pr_filler'
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:272: error: conflicting types for `pr_lwp'
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:156: error: previous declaration of `pr_lwp'
> /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:273: error: parse error before '}' token
> ../../gdb/procfs.c:329: error: parse error before "gdb_prstatus_t"
> ../../gdb/procfs.c:329: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `gdb_prstatus_t'
> ../../gdb/procfs.c:329: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>
> I've never seen this failure. I've been building gdb on SPARC Solaris
> 2.6, 7 and 9 from time to time and I can't remember ever seeing this
> particular failure. Could you try building a recent gdb snapshot on
> your system. See http://sourceware.org/gdb on how to obtain a
> snapshot.

That seems to have fixed the problem nicely for Sparc Solaris 8.

> It's slightly different on Solaris 10 Intel:
>
> . . .
> gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I../../gdb -I../../gdb/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../gdb/../include/opcode -I../../gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd -I../../gdb/../bfd -I../../gdb/../include -I../intl -I../../gdb/../intl -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wformat-nonliteral -Wunused-label -Wunused-function ../../gdb/tui/tui.c
> In file included from ../../gdb/tui/tui.c:48:
> /usr/include/term.h:1060: error: parse error before "SGTTY"
> /usr/include/term.h:1120: error: parse error before '}' token
>
> Ah, this defenitely has been fixed a while ago.

I have the snapshot downloaded, I'll try building it when I can - I'm
sure it's fine now.

Thanks for the pointer!

Lou
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