On Saturday, 03 January 2026, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello, > > El vie, 2 ene 2026, 20:37, Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> escribió: > >> gdb fails to cross build from source for three distinct reasons. >> >> 1. The build-dependency on gobjc is not satisfiable. It is a toolchain >> dependendency and needs to specify what the compiler is being used >> for. Most commonly, one targeting the host architecture is needed. >> This is achieved by using gobjc-for-host. >> >> 2. The build-dependency on python3-dev is not installable. It implies a >> host architecture Python interpreter. Python extensions should >> depend on python3-dev:native plus libpython3-dev instead. >> >> 3. In bfd/doc, chew.c uses host compiler flags with the build compiler. >> This fails badly when compiling for amd64 or arm64. >> >> I'm attaching a patch that addresses all mentioned issues. Please >> consider applying it. The part fixing chew.c should be suitable for >> upstream inclusion. >> > > Thanks for the patch, we'll look into this, however note that this should > not be blocking cross development and gdb team suggests to use > gdb-multiarch for cross development purposes. > > Thanks again for your work on this
Thanks Helmut and Hector. I have been a bit busy with other stuff recently but I plan to take a look at this bug during the weekend. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible https://sergiodj.net/
