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Date:	Sun, 05 Jan 2003 11:04:44 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: GDB 5.3 build query/problem & solution
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Hello.

Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> In building GDB5.3 from the sources I had to make the follwoing change
> (besides the djconfig.sh mod for P4 building):-
> 1) The makefile in the readline directory had hardcoded directory
> references, they were:-
>     BUILD_DIR = c:/temp/distmake/gdb53s/gnu/gdb-5.3/readline
> 
>   When this was changed to the gdb makefile worked correctly:
>     BUILD_DIR = /dev/env/DJDIR/gnu/gdb-5.3/readline
> 
> I had a look at the GDB 5.2.1 readline\makefile and it also has a hardcoded
> directory BUILD_DIR so the problem looks like it's in the configure stage.
> Teo options here as far as I can see, 1) Fix configure, 2) Modify the readme
> to indicate that you will need to manually modify the readline/makefile if
> you do not perform the configure stage.

The first value of $(BUILD_DIR) is from my distribution-making tree (as you
probably guessed). I will take a look at this. Thanks for the bug report.
 
> I do not know if this is a problem or not with the GDB info files:
> 1) I ran 'make info' as I have done with 5.x.x and it produced the docs, but
> I couldn't see any output info files being produced. I deleted the
> gdb\doc\gdb.info file and ran 'make info' again and thegot the following
> info files:
>     gdb.info,     gdb.info-1   ....  gdb.info-15
> Any ideas on why I got 16 files instead of the one as was in the
> source/binary package?

I always make info files using the --no-split option of makeinfo. Then you
don't have to worry about short vs. long filename issues with <blah>.info-<nn>
files.
 
> 2) It looks like the output info files from the gdb\doc directory were
> included the source as follows:-
>     DJGPP_204 D:\dj204\gnu\gdb-5.3>dir *.inf* /s
> 
>  Directory of D:\dj204\gnu\gdb-5.3\gdb\doc
>     27/12/2002  03:01 PM           775,240 gdb.info
>     27/12/2002  02:59 PM           286,465 gdbint.info
>     27/12/2002  02:57 PM           156,939 stabs.info
> 
>  Directory of D:\dj204\gnu\gdb-5.3\bfd\doc
>     27/12/2002  02:56 PM           347,101 bfd.info
> 
>  Directory of D:\dj204\gnu\gdb-5.3\mmalloc
>     10/12/2002  09:33 PM             8,280 mmalloc.info
> 
>  Directory of D:\dj204\gnu\gdb-5.3\etc
>     10/12/2002  09:33 PM           182,159 standards.info
>     27/12/2002  03:03 PM           115,781 configure.info

Again, I take the source distribution, rm -f *.info*, then makeinfo
--no-split.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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