Need advice on building GDB for a large number of PowerPC variants.

["Anmol P. Paralkar" <b07584 at freescale dot com>]

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