Re: problems building CVS snapshot

Klaus Zeitler
2003-05-28T13:50:00Z

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

>> 1. configure complains about sys/ptem.h
>>
>> checking sys/ptem.h usability... no
>> checking sys/ptem.h presence... yes
>> configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: present but cannot be compiled
>> configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
>> configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
>> configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ##
>> configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-autoconf@gnu.org. ##
>> configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ##
>>
>> a test C program that additionally contains sys/streams.h does compile.
>>
>> I reported this yesterday to bug-autoconf and got the following reply:
Daniel>
Daniel> Thanks for the report. I'll hold on to this, since we are going
Daniel> to be transitioning to autoconf 2.5x at some point, but this is
Daniel> actually a problem with your setup. We only support autoconf 2.13.

I've now installed autoconf 2.13 and get the same message

>> 2. compile of infrun.c fails
>>
>> gcc -c -g -O2 -I/usr/include/v9 -I. -I. -I./config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/gdb+dejagnu/20030526/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./../include/opcode -I./../readline/.. -I../bfd -I./../bfd -I./../include -I../intl -I./../intl -DMI_OUT=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized infrun.c
>> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccWcVZ58.s", line 3774: error: constant value must be between -4096 and 4095
>> make[1]: *** [infrun.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/vol/freeware/source/gdb+dejagnu-20030526/gdb'
Daniel>
Daniel> This is a bug in GCC. May want to report it to them. I think it's
Daniel> been fixed or discussed recently.

yes, it seems to be fixed, it compiles with gcc 3.0.4

>> 4. on our system is tcl/tk 8.0.5 installed (old I know)
>> It seems as if gdb comes with its own tcl (8.4.1) but no tk. configure
>> doesn't find the installed tk version (on my system tcl/tk is installed
>> under /usr/local/gnu). configure has an option with-tkconfig that I
>> could use, but I guess using tcl 8.4.1 together with tk 8.0.5 might be
>> asking for trouble anyway.
Daniel>
Daniel> Can't help you there. I avoid both TCL and Tk whenever possible.

wholeheartedly agree :-)

Thanks

Klaus

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