Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:33:02 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Keith Seitz Cc: Jerry Hidayat , cygwin@cygwin.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB for Powerpc building problem Message-ID: <20010904153302.A17175@false.org> Mail-Followup-To: Keith Seitz , Jerry Hidayat , cygwin@cygwin.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <01090413014602.07728@asia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from keiths@cygnus.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:02:54AM -0700 On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:02:54AM -0700, Keith Seitz wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jerry Hidayat wrote: > > > I need your help guys.... > > Basically, I am trying to build GDB 4.17 for PowerPC target. I have installed > > the latest cygwin on my Win NT 4.0 box which also provides a compiler > > (2.95.3-5). Here is the command I put for configuring GDB builder , > > ./configure --target=powerpc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr/local/powerpc/bin > > it's configured without any error message. > > but when I do 'make' I see this error, > > ****************************************************** > > In file included from sim_calls.c:43: > > ../../gdb/defs.h:51: conflicting types for 'strsignal' > > /usr/include/string.h:70: previous declaration of 'strsignal' > > make[2]: *** [sim_calls.o] Error 1 > > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/paulh/gdb417/gdb-4.17/sim/ppc' > > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 > > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/paulh/gdb417/gdb-4.17/sim' > > make: *** [all-sim] Error 2 > > ******************************************************* Try a newer GDB version. I believe this is caused by a change in headers in Cygwin very recently; you may need a current CVS snapshot in order to fix it. > You should have waited for a message from the gdb list... But your problem > is very simple: you're buiding for "powerpc-linux-gun". You cannot build > for one OS on another OS. It doesn't (usually) work. Huh? I build Solaris-x-Linux and Cygwin-x-Linux debuggers fairly frequently. Cross debuggers take some care not to use target-specific headers in the target-dependent files for exactly this reason. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/