Re: gdb 5.0

["M.M. Kettenis" <m.m.kettenis@alumnus.utwente.nl>]

"Tiziano Tosi" <ttosi@generalmusic.com> wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> my platform is:
>
> RH9 (kernel 2.4.20-8), glibc-2.3.2-27.9 (updated)
> When i build gdb 5.0 (gdb-5.0.tar.bz2), occured the following error:

> ../../bfd/libbfd.a(srec.o)(.text+0xd4): In function `srec_bad_byte':
> /usr/local/src/gdb-5.0/bfd/srec.c:282: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> ../../bfd/libbfd.a(srec.o)(.text+0x2e7): In function `srec_scan':
> /usr/local/src/gdb-5.0/bfd/srec.c:406: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> ../../bfd/libbfd.a(binary.o)(.text+0x14d): In function `mangle_name':
> /usr/local/src/gdb-5.0/bfd/binary.c:158: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> ../../bfd/libbfd.a(ihex.o)(.text+0x74): In function `ihex_bad_byte':
> /usr/local/src/gdb-5.0/bfd/ihex.c:251: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
> ../../bfd/libbfd.a(archive.o)(.text+0x3b2): In function
> `_bfd_generic_read_ar_hdr_mag':
> /usr/local/src/gdb-5.0/bfd/archive.c:460: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'

Sorry, but your RH9 install is a bit hosed.  Looks like your libc is
out of sync with its header files.  If you upgraded libc on that
system at some point in the past, you might try upgrading the
"developer" packages.  If this is fixed please try to compile a newer
gdb; 5.0 is quite old, and many bugs in it have been fixed.

Mark