Re: GDB 8.1 build error

Paul Koning
2018-04-27T18:57:50Z

> On Apr 27, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Apr 27, 2018, at 2:02 PM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
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>> On 2018-04-26 19:48, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> I can't build GDB on Mac. This shows up both in a native build, and a
>>> cross-build (for example target=mips-netbsdelf). I see this error:
>>> /Users/pkoning/Downloads/gdb-8.1/gdb/stap-probe.c:122:29: error: default
>>> initialization of an object of const type 'const stap_static_probe_ops'
>>> without a user-provided default constructor
>>> const stap_static_probe_ops stap_static_probe_ops;
>>> or
>>> /Users/pkoning/Downloads/gdb-8.1/gdb/probe.c:63:28: error: default
>>> initialization of an object of const type 'const any_static_probe_ops'
>>> without a user-provided default constructor
>>> const any_static_probe_ops any_static_probe_ops;
>>> (same problem, different source file).
>>> paul
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>> Hi Paul,
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>> What is the compiler, which version, and can you share the full command line used to compile probe.o, for example?
>>
>> Simon
> ...
> These appear to be LLVM incompatibilities; if I feed those command lines to (real) GCC 8.0, just built yesterday from current trunk, they compile cleanly.

To follow up on that: if I force the use of real GCC/G++ (with CC and CXX definitions in the configure command), I get a successful build for the native case. I'm trying a cross-build now.

paul