Re: gdb supported on powerpc-apple-darwin ?

[Mario Emmenlauer <mario@emmenlauer.de>]

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Hi,

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 04:44:57PM +0200, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
>> it seems a rather trivial question, however I could not easily find
>> the answer: is 'plain' FSF gdb supported on Mac OS X (ppc darwin)?
> 
> No.  That's what this means:
> 
>> *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
>>      bfd opcodes gdb sim

Fair enough :-)

BTW: the error message appears just after invoking configure, and is
not re-displayed later. This is why I missed it the first time. When
the 'gdb' directory is not supported, it might be sensible to show a
big warning at the configure results?

A start might be something like the below patch to configure.ac.


Cheers,

    Mario


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--- gdb-6.8/configure.ac	2008-03-27 19:27:19.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/configure.ac	2008-08-16 17:50:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -1632,8 +1632,14 @@
   # Okay, some application will build, or we don't care to check.  Still
   # notify of subdirs not getting built.
   echo "*** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:" 1>&2
-  echo "    ${notsupp}" 1>&2
-  echo "    (Any other directories should still work fine.)" 1>&2
+  echo "     ${notsupp}" 1>&2
+  if echo " ${notsupp} " | grep " gdb " >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "    which means gdb will not be built on this platform!" 1>&2
+    echo "    Continuing, though possible, is most likely not what you want." 1>&2
+    echo "    (However other directories should still work fine.)" 1>&2
+  else
+    echo "    (Any other directories should still work fine.)" 1>&2
+  fi
 fi
 
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