Re: Register setting problem

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>]

> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:03:14PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> Suggest grabbing a snapshot from the latest (5.3) branch: 
>> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/.  That way we know
>> it is fixed in the next GDB release.
> 
> 
> OK, I grabbed gdb+dejagnu.tar.bz2 which appears to be symlinked to
> gdb+dejagnu-5.2.90_20020917.tar.bz2.  I am getting a configure error:
> 
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> configure: error: source directory already configured; run make
> distclean there first
> configure: error:
> .../../../../gdb+dejagnu-5.2.90_20020917/dejagnu/example/calc/configure
> failed for example/calc
> Configure in /export/home0/software/build/build-gdb/dejagnu failed,
> exiting.

I think the snapshot (and hence the release :-() process is leaving a 
stray file behind. (I also recall someone mentioning this before :-( ).

Look for config.cache, config.log, Makefile, or similar.

The work around is to delete the dejagnu directory from the unpacked 
source tree.

Andrew


> The config.log file in the calc subdirectory looks clean (though there
> is a confdefs.h file left over containing only a single newline
> character):
> 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> configure:562: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:615: checking whether build environment is sane
> configure:672: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
> 
> I then tried the suggested action of running make distclean in the GDB
> source directory but that results in:
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
> 
> I get the same error in the dejagnu subdirectory but I get a different
> error in the dejagnu/example subdirectory:
> 
> Makefile:317: warning: overriding commands for target `check-recursive'
> Makefile:111: warning: ignoring old commands for target
> `check-recursive'
> make: *** No rule to make target `../config.status', needed by
> `Makefile'.  Stop.
> 
> In the dejagnu/example/calc subdirectory, I get the same error minus
> the two warnings.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get around this problem?  Should I try
> yesterday's snapshot instead?  I am building GDB in a separate directory
> outside of the source tree as I usually do and the source tree is clean
> from the tarball.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Ron McCall
>