Re: Build failure: src/gdb ChangeLog record.c gcore.c gcore.h

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Hui Zhu wrote:
> $ ./gdb ./a.exe
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> Reading symbols from /home/hzhu/gdb/bgdbcygwin/gdb/a.exe...done.
> Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
> Function "internal_error" not defined.
> Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
> [answered N; input not from terminal]
> Function "info_command" not defined.
> Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
> [answered N; input not from terminal]
> /home/hzhu/gdb/bgdbcygwin/gdb/.gdbinit:8: Error in sourced command file:
> No breakpoint number 0.
> (gdb) start
> Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x4010b0: file
> /cygdrive/c/study/gcc/gdb/rec/1.c, line 20.
> Starting program: /home/hzhu/gdb/bgdbcygwin/gdb/a.exe
> [New Thread 3820.0x600]
> [New Thread 3820.0x14c]
> [New Thread 3820.0xf94]
>
> Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at /cygdrive/c/study/gcc/gdb/rec/1.c:20
> 20             int     b = 0;
> (gdb) gcore
> Can't create a corefile
> (gdb)
>
>   /* An external target method must build the notes section.  */
>   note_data = target_make_corefile_notes (obfd, &note_size);
>
> It's target depend.
>
> It just a error output, better than build error.
>
> Thanks,
> Hui

Fine, if you can make it work.
I'll be happy to look at a patch.