Re: newbie question: need arm9 native gdb; how to compile gdb sourcefor arm9?

[Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>]

That all looks fine.  Can't imagine why it didn't find ar.

Did you also set PATH when doing the 'make'?  All you show
in the script is the 'configure's.
- Dan

Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware) wrote:
> Hi Dan;
>
>   This is my script to build gdb:
>
> **************************************************************
> #!/bin/bash
>
>
> export 
> PATH="/tuba_local/crosstool/crosstool-0.24/result/arm-arm9-linux-gnu/gcc-3.2.1-glibc-2.3.2/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin"
>
> # This builds an arm9 cross gdb...
> # ../gdb-6.0/configure --target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>
> # This builds a native arm9 gdb using i686-unknown-linux-gnu to build it...
> # ../gdb-6.0/configure --host=arm-arm9-linux-gnu 
> --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
>
> # only use arm9 tools?
> ../gdb-6.0/configure --host=arm-arm9-linux-gnu --build=arm-arm9-linux-gnu 
> --target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
> **************************************************************
>
> This is the output of the ls:
> **************************************************************
> tuba:/tuba_local/gdb_6.0/build_arm9_gdb_6.0_try3> ls 
> /tuba_local/crosstool/crosstool-0.24/result/arm-arm9-linux-gnu/gcc-3.2.1-glibc-2.3.2/bin
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-addr2line  arm-arm9-linux-gnu-c++filt  
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gccbug  arm-arm9-linux-gnu-objcopy  
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-size
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar         arm-arm9-linux-gnu-cpp      
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gcov    arm-arm9-linux-gnu-objdump  
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-strings
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-as         arm-arm9-linux-gnu-g++      
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ld      arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ranlib   
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-strip
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-c++        arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gcc      
> arm-arm9-linux-gnu-nm      arm-arm9-linux-gnu-readelf
> tuba:/tuba_local/gdb_6.0/build_arm9_gdb_6.0_try3>
> **************************************************************
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
> On Monday 27 October 2003 15:15, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware) wrote:
> >
> > > ../gdb-6.0/configure \
> > > --host=arm-arm9-linux-gnu \
> > > --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu \
> > > --target=arm-arm9-linux-gnu
> > >
> > > because I want a native arm9 gdb they can run on the board itself.
> > >
> > > This failed due to:
> > >
> > > *************************************************************************
> > > ********************** arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar rc libiberty.a \
> > >  regex.o cplus-dem.o cp-demangle.o md5.o alloca.o argv.o choose-temp.o
> > > concat.o dyn-string.o fdmatch.o fibheap.o floatformat.o fnmatch.o
> > > getopt.o getopt1.o getpwd.o getruntime.o hashtab.o hex.o lbasename.o
> > > lrealpath.o make-relative-prefix.o make-temp-file.o objalloc.o obstack.o
> > > partition.o physmem.o pex-unix.o safe-ctype.o sort.o spaces.o
> > > splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o ternary.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o
> > > xmemdup.o xstrdup.o xstrerror.o  mkstemps.o
> > > make[1]: arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar: Command not found
> > > make[1]: *** [libiberty.a] Error 127
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > > `/tuba_local/gdb_6.0/build_arm9_gdb_6.0_try2/libiberty'
> > > make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
> > > *************************************************************************
> > > **********************
> > >
> > > I don't have an arm-arm9-linux-gnu-ar executeable as a result of running
> > > crosstool :-(
> >
> > What *do* you have as a result of running crosstool?
> > Can you do an 'ls' in the bin directory of the toolchain?
> > Sounds like maybe you just have a path set wrong...
> >
> > In other words, don't panic, your toolchain is probably fine...
> > - Dan



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