From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 73396 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2019 19:53:44 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 73386 invoked by uid 89); 13 Dec 2019 19:53:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=H*f:sk:DB6PR05, ton, HX-Languages-Length:1751 X-HELO: simark.ca Received: from simark.ca (HELO simark.ca) (158.69.221.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:53:42 +0000 Received: from [172.16.0.95] (192-222-181-218.qc.cable.ebox.net [192.222.181.218]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF6761E573; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:53:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: building GDB 9.0.50.20191206 To: Joel Brobecker , Wadud Miah Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" , Tom Tromey References: <20191212140954.GC8591@adacore.com> From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191212140954.GC8591@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 On 2019-12-12 9:09 a.m., Joel Brobecker wrote: > Hello, > >> I am trying to build GDB 9.0.50.20191206 from source and am getting the following error: >> >> configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first >> configure: error: .././../../gnulib/configure failed for build-gnulib-gdbserver >> configure: error: ./configure failed for gdbserver >> make[1]: *** [Makefile:9534: configure-gdb] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/gdb-9.0.50.20191206' >> make: *** [Makefile:852: all] Error 2 >> >> I don't need the server component of GDB as I will be debugging locally, but could not find any option in the configure script to disable the building of the server component. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Let me point you to the message I sent following the announcement of > the availability of the first pre-release: > https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-12/msg00451.html > > I apologize for the message about the branch being created not > but that's because these are automated, and I didn't know about > that issue at the time the branch was created. > > -- > Joel > Adding Tom in CC. Tom, could you describe what is missing to complete this move? I am afraid that if we release like this, we'll get this question a ton of time, it wouldn't be a good user experience at all. So it would be good to either: (1) complete the move before the release (2) make it official that building in the source directory is not supported from now on (this idea was brought up a few times in the past), make configure fail when trying to do so with a clear error message Please tell me if there's anything I can do to help with this effort. Simon