Re: Problem building GDB for sparc-rtems

[David Paterson <dnpaterson at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> wrote:
> I want to thank Joe & Ralf for jumping in here with additional expertise,
> but here's another data point.
>
> On 05/19/2011 07:09 AM, David Paterson wrote:
>>
>> Apart from $PATH being a bit wonky, everything else looks good, so
>> I'll sort out the path and try again, then move to Linux if I'm having no
>> joy with that.
>
> I have a mingw box with no Visual Studio or Cygwin installed on it. All I
> did was:
>
> $ mkdir sparc-rtems; cd sparc-rtems
> $ CFLAGS="-ggdb -O0" ../gdb-7.2/configure --prefix=$HOME/built
> --target=sparc-rtems --disable-sim
> $ make all-gdb install-gdb
>
> and this worked with both the 7.2 tarball and CVS HEAD. [There appear to be
> build problems with the simulator on MinGW.]
>
> FWIW:
>
> $ echo $PATH
> .:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDWOS/system32/Wbem:/c/mingw/emacs-23.3/bin
> $ gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> COLLECT_GCC=C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/lto-wrapper.exe
> Target: mingw32
> Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.0/configure
> --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --disable-sjlj-exceptions
> --with-dwarf2 --enable-shared --enable-libgomp --disable-win32-registry
> --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
> --disable-werror --build=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw
> Thread model: win32
> gcc vesion 4.5.0 (GCC)
>
>
> I didn't do anything fancy to setup MinGW (which I only use for occasional
> build testing of Insight); I just followed the instructions on the MinGW
> homepage.

Thanks Keith.  Based on what you said I had another look at the path, and
tried explicity resetting it to something similar to yours.

And guess what - GDB builds!! :-)

Looking at the old path, and doing a bit of googling, it seems that the entry
"nvinitdll" is causing the problem.  This is something to do with the nVidia
drivers on my machine, and I think it might disappear if reinstall or upgrade
the drivers.

Anyway, now I know what's going wrong, and I can build my whole toolchain.
I guess I should also base it on the patched versions, rather than the "raw"
sources, to make sure it's fully compatible :-)

Thanks to everyone who helped sort this out - much appreciated :-)

Cheers,

David P.