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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 12:52:11 +0200
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
From: Pierre Muller <muller AT cerbere DOT u-strasbg DOT fr>
Subject: Re: GDB 5.0 is in pretest
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At 10:35 15/05/00 +0300, you wrote:
>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
  At this point my version of bunzip2 
wrote all to terminal !!
-s is --stdout so this is expected !
Why did you add -c option here ?

>   djtar -x -p -o gdb-4.95.1/djunpack.bat gdb-4.95.1.tar > djunpack.bat
OK
>   djunpack gdb-4.95.1.tar 
OK
>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
OK
>(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
OK,
binary seems to work correctly,
only a very short test !
>   make info
skipped
>   make install prefix=${DJDIR}
Failure :
redir -eo make install prefix=${DJDIR} > log 
gave
>>>>Start of log
D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe ./mkinstalldirs d:/djgpp d:/djgpp
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd'
Making install in doc
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd/doc'
make.exe[3]: Entering directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd/doc'
make.exe[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make.exe[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make.exe[3]: Leaving directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd/doc'
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd/doc'
Making install in po
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd/po'
make.exe[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd/po'
make.exe[2]: Entering directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd'
make.exe[3]: Entering directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd'
D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe ./../mkinstalldirs d:/djgpp/lib
D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe ./libtool  --mode=install D:/DJGPP/BIN/sh.exe
d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/install-sh -c libbfd.la d:/djgpp/lib/libbfd.la
libtool: install: `d:/djgpp/lib/libbfd.la' is not a directory
Try `libtool --help --mode=install' for more information.
make.exe[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make.exe[3]: Leaving directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd'
make.exe[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd'
make.exe[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `d:/pub/gdb-5.0/gdb-4.95.1/bfd'
make.exe: *** [install-bfd] Error 2
>>>>End of log 

sh --version gives
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-msdosdjgpp) r0.6
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Hope it can help !


Pierre Muller
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