Re: problems building CVS snapshot

[Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler@lucent.com>]

>>>>> "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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