Re: problems building CVS snapshot

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:16:03AM +0200, Klaus Zeitler wrote:
> 
> since I have I few problems with gdb 5.0 and 5.2 under SunOS-5.8 I thought
> I'll go and check the CVS version, thus I fetched gdb+dejagnu-20030526
> and tried configure and make. Here are 4 problems I ran into:
> 
> 1. configure complains about sys/ptem.h
> 
> checking sys/ptem.h usability... no
> checking sys/ptem.h presence... yes
> configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
> configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-autoconf@gnu.org. ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> 
> a test C program that additionally contains sys/streams.h does compile.
> 
> I reported this yesterday to bug-autoconf and got the following reply:

Thanks for the report.  I'll hold on to this, since we are going to be
transitioning to autoconf 2.5x at some point, but this is actually a
problem with your setup.  We only support autoconf 2.13.

Try touching all the configure scripts before building so that they are
not rebuilt with your system version of autoconf.

> 2. compile of infrun.c fails
> 
> gcc -c -g -O2  -I/usr/include/v9  -I. -I. -I./config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/gdb+dejagnu/20030526/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./../include/opcode -I./../readline/.. -I../bfd -I./../bfd  -I./../include -I../intl -I./../intl  -DMI_OUT=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized  infrun.c
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccWcVZ58.s", line 3774: error: constant value must be between -4096 and 4095
> make[1]: *** [infrun.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/vol/freeware/source/gdb+dejagnu-20030526/gdb'

This is a bug in GCC.  May want to report it to them.  I think it's
been fixed or discussed recently.

> 3. normally I don't build in the source directory, but if I try to build
> in a separate build directory, make stops in example/calc with:
> 
> configuring in example/calc
> running /bin/sh /vol/freeware/source/gdb+dejagnu-20030526/dejagnu/example/calc/configure  --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --target=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --prefix=/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/gdb+dejagnu/20030526 --cache-file=../../.././config.cache --srcdir=/vol/freeware/source/gdb+dejagnu-20030526/dejagnu/example/calc
> loading cache ../../.././config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/sh $s/install-sh -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> configure: error: source directory already configured; run make distclean there first
> configure: error: /vol/freeware/source/gdb+dejagnu-20030526/dejagnu/example/calc/configure failed for example/calc
> make: *** [configure-dejagnu] Error 1
> ERROR: gdb: make

This is a known problem in the included dejagnu :(

> 4. on our system is tcl/tk 8.0.5 installed (old I know)
> It seems as if gdb comes with its own tcl (8.4.1) but no tk.
> configure doesn't find the installed tk version (on my system tcl/tk is
> installed under /usr/local/gnu). configure has an option with-tkconfig that
> I could use, but I guess using tcl 8.4.1 together with tk 8.0.5 might be
> asking for trouble anyway.

Can't help you there.  I avoid both TCL and Tk whenever possible.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer