Re: [PATCH] Add command 'generate-core-file'

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Pierre Muller wrote:
> 
> At 01:36 09/01/2002 , vous avez écrit:
> >OK, after moving the gcore functionality from linux-gcore.c to
> >linux-proc.c, I'm going to commit this.  Here is the patch as
> >committed.  Hopefully I haven't left anything out.
> 
> Michael, your patch causes win32-nat compilation failure:
> 
> muller@LAOCOON ~/gdb/build/gdb
> $ make
> rm -f gdb.exe
> gcc -g -O2         -o gdb.exe \
> main.o libgdb.a cli-decode.o cli-script.o cli-cmds.o cli-setshow.o cli-utils.o m
> i-out.o mi-console.o mi-cmds.o mi-cmd-var.o mi-cmd-break.o mi-cmd-stack.o mi-cmd
> -disas.o mi-main.o mi-parse.o mi-getopt.o    ../bfd/libbfd.a ../readline/libread
> line.a ../opcodes/libopcodes.a ./../intl/libintl.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a `if
> test -r ../libtermcap/libtermcap.a; then echo ../libtermcap/libtermcap.a; else e
> cho -ltermcap; fi`     -lm  ../libiberty/libiberty.a -luser32 -limagehlp\
> 
> libgdb.a(exec.o): In function `exec_make_note_section':
> /home/muller/gdb/build/gdb/../../src/gdb/exec.c:792: undefined reference to `elf
> core_write_prpsinfo'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [gdb.exe] Error 1
> 
> This comes from the fact that elfcore_write_prpsinfo is not compiled
> #if defined (HAVE_PRPSINFO_T) || defined (HAVE_PSINFO_T)
> char *
> elfcore_write_prpsinfo (abfd, buf, bufsiz, fname, psargs)
> 
> So something needs to be done ....

Oops -- sorry.  That bit was looking forward to a future plan for 
making corefiles for things like remote targets and simulators.
I've stripped it out now.