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

["Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware)" <Ken dot Wolcott at med dot ge dot com>]

Hi Dan;

  I did "export PATH=stuff:"

  The script is between the lines of asterisks...

  The most recent run can't find nm either :-(

Ken

On Monday 27 October 2003 16:00, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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