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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:43:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: GDB 5.0 is in pretest
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On 15 May 2000, at 10:35, Eli Zaretskii 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
>    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.

Tried in DOS session under Win98 SE (LFN=Y). Building GDB worked 
Ok (make all info)

I got failures in 'make install-info prefix=`pwd`/inst' (I prefer to install 
into temporary directory instead of directly to $DJDIR):

make.exe[3]: Entering directory `c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-4.95.1/gdb/doc'
/dev/env/DJDIR/bin/sh.exe ./../../mkinstalldirs c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-
4.95.1/inst/inf
o
for i in *.inf* *.i[1-9] *.i[1-9][0-9] ; do \
        /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/sh.exe c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-4.95.1/install-sh -c -
m 644 $
i c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-4.95.1/inst/info/$i ; \
done
install:  *.i[1-9] does not exist
install:  *.i[1-9][0-9] does not exist
make.exe[3]: *** [install-info] Error 1
make.exe[3]: Leaving directory `c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-4.95.1/gdb/doc'
make.exe[2]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1
make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-4.95.1/gdb'
make.exe[1]: *** [install-info] Error 2
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `c:/Devel/gdb/gdb-4.95.1/gdb'
make.exe: *** [do-install-info] Error 1
sh-2.03$

Perhaps we should act differently depending on value of LFN (or 
using command line option --no-split to avoid this nuisance

Also I was not able to get gdb/config/djgpp/djcheck.sh working

Andris