From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25538 invoked by alias); 17 May 2007 21:43:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 25361 invoked by uid 22791); 17 May 2007 21:43:52 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (HELO de01egw01.freescale.net) (192.88.165.102) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:43:40 +0000 Received: from de01smr01.freescale.net (de01smr01.freescale.net [10.208.0.31]) by de01egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw01) with ESMTP id l4HLhbuB014879 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 14:43:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from postal.somerset.sps.mot.com ([163.12.132.5]) by de01smr01.freescale.net (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id l4HLhaaL015621 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:43:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ld0159-tx32 (ld0159-tx32 [10.82.19.109]) by postal.somerset.sps.mot.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l4HLhpL01969 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:43:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:43:00 -0000 From: "Anmol P. Paralkar" To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Need advice on building GDB for a large number of PowerPC variants. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-05/txt/msg00069.txt.bz2 Hello, I need to build GDB for a debugging a variety of PowerPC families. The host environment is x86 plus a small subset of the PowerPC variants. GDB will be used native as well as cross (remote) from each host (x86 (cross-only) as well as PowerPC). A substantial number of PowerPC flavours is desired to be targetted - the number of families and the instances within each family all result in a fairly large number of individual targets. Both the variations in configurations: powerpc-linux-gnu as well as powerpc-eabi are needed for almost each individual target. I reckon that I only need build: * GDB in both eabi and linux configurations per host; any desired target can be debugged by doing a 'set architecture' for it. That way the number of GDB's built is two per host. as against: * A GDB per (host, target) combination of interest. Which will needless to say, will result in a large number of GDB executables needed to be built. Please could you tell me if my reasoning is correct or am I missing something essential? Thank you very much for your help. Best Regards, Anmol P. Paralkar