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Re: gdb failing to build on RHEL 6
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Dave Kirby <dave dot x dot kirby at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:45:35 +0400
- Subject: Re: gdb failing to build on RHEL 6
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> I have tried it with both the official 7.8.1 release from the ftp site
> and the current head from the git repository - commit
> 8908fca5772fcff9f7766158ba2aa59f5a2b1f68.
>
> I googled the error but all I found was a post on this forum from last
> June with someone reporting the same problem
> (http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-06/msg00007.html). The only
> response said there had been a broken commit, but no work-around was
> given. I find it hard to believe that it is the same issue and that
> gdb has been released in a state where it would not build.
>
> So what am I missing? Or doing wrong? Or is the release itself
> broken? How do I fix it and get a working build?
version.c is create by a Makefile rule that calls
gdb/common/create-version.sh.
I would check your build logs to see if that script got called,
and if it did, then whether it printed any error or not.
--
Joel