Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:35:09 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: GDB 5.0 is in pretest Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com It looks like GDB 5.0 should be released VSN. At this point, I'd like to ask people to download the latest pretest and try to build it on their system, whether Windows or DOS. The pretest is available here: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2 Note that this is a bzip2 archive, so you will need bunzip2 to unpack it. Also note that, due to file-name nuisances, the unpacking procedure is a bit complicated. Please unpack the archive exactly as described below (this description is also in the gdb/config/djgpp/README file), otherwise the configuration script will refuse to run and you might have other problems down the line. Please report any problems here. Thanks! To unpack the archive: bunzip2 -c gdb-4.95.1.tar.bz2 djtar -x -p -o gdb-4.95.1/djunpack.bat gdb-4.95.1.tar > djunpack.bat djunpack gdb-4.95.1.tar I suggest to read the file gdb/config/djgpp/README after unpacking. To configure: cd gdb-4.95.1 sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh (The djconfig.sh script uses GNU `find', so make sure you have Findutils installed.) The configure script will print a warning message about the Tcl directory not being found; this is normal. To build and install: make make info make install prefix=${DJDIR} make install-info prefix=${DJDIR} During compilation, you might see a couple of warnings from the compiler in the bfd directory (about unused arguments and comparison between signed and unsigned); this is normal. The linker will complain about line number overflow; this is also expected. Except for these, please report any warning/error messages you see. Of course, if the built binary behaves abnormally, please report that as well.