Re: GDB for Powerpc building problem

Keith Seitz
2001-09-04T11:02:00Z

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jerry Hidayat wrote:

> I need your help guys....
> Basically, I am trying to build GDB 4.17 for PowerPC target. I have installed
> the latest cygwin on my Win NT 4.0 box which also provides a compiler
> (2.95.3-5). Here is the command I put for configuring GDB builder ,
> ./configure --target=powerpc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr/local/powerpc/bin
> it's configured without any error message.
> but when I do 'make' I see this error,
> ******************************************************
> In file included from sim_calls.c:43:
> ../../gdb/defs.h:51: conflicting types for 'strsignal'
> /usr/include/string.h:70: previous declaration of 'strsignal'
> make[2]: *** [sim_calls.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/paulh/gdb417/gdb-4.17/sim/ppc'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/paulh/gdb417/gdb-4.17/sim'
> make: *** [all-sim] Error 2
> *******************************************************

You should have waited for a message from the gdb list... But your problem
is very simple: you're buiding for "powerpc-linux-gun". You cannot build
for one OS on another OS. It doesn't (usually) work.

Are you targeting powerpc-linux??? If so, build it on your powerpc-linux
box. If you are building for generic powerpc-eabi or something, then use
"powerpc-eabi" as a target.

Keith