gdb retargetting

Rick Richardson
2002-08-14T16:05:18Z

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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