Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Jim Marshall <jim_marshall2268 at yahoo dot com>]

Thanks for the input. I got past the first error, by setting the command line to be larger on AIX, but now I get some other weird error:

configure: configuring in doc
configure: running /bin/sh '../.././gdb/doc/configure' --prefix=/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/build  '--cache-file=./config.cache' '--prefix=/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/build' '--program-transform-name=s,y,y,' '--build=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--host=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--target=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--srcdir=.././gdb' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bbigtoc' 'build_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' 'host_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' 'target_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=../.././gdb/doc
configure: loading cache .././config.cache
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/gdb-6.8/install-sh -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating .gdbinit
config.status: error: cannot find input file: gdbinit.in
configure: error: /bin/sh '../.././gdb/doc/configure' failed for doc
gmake[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/gdb-6.8'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

> find . -name gdbinit.in
./sim/common/gdbinit.in
./gdb/gdbinit.in


I will try moving it to '/tmp' and see if that makes a difference.

Any thoughts on the above error?


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:

> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Subject: Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2
> To: "Jim Marshall" <jim_marshall2268@yahoo.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 11:22 AM
> > Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but
> eventually fails
> > trying to create a 'doc' directory.
> 
> Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that
> has a very
> low limitation in terms of the argument list size. The
> command line
> from your transcript doesn't look all that long! If you
> have other
> shells such as bash or zsh, try "make
> SHELL=bash", for instance (you
> don't have to reconfigure to try this out).  Another
> thing that
> you can try is build GDB from /tmp. That should reduce the
> size of
> some of the arguments used in the command that failed.
> 
> -- 
> Joel