--- "B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Objective: build Debian hppa -> hurd cross debugger. > > Background: Being adventurous, and perhaps foolish, I > bought a HP 9000 715/80 box to use as a general purpose > debugging and otherwise silly hobby box.
Well, osfmach runs on one of these boxes ;) > I have the thing > running Woody just fine using a dumb terminal and want to > use it for a serial debugging machine for OSKit-Mach and > Debian Hurd. Serial connection tested and working. > > Problem: gdb-5.1.1 doesn't configure, gives the following > error message: > ... > checking for X... no > configure: error: *** Gdb does not support host > hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu > Configure in /usr/src/gdb-5.1.1/build/gdb failed, exiting. > > Comments: See the quoted message [1] from last September at the > tail > of this message. I am now going to download the year old gdb > source > from cvs.parisc-linux.org/gdb/ and attempt to build it with the > > following > options: > ../configure --host=hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu > --target=i386-pc-gnu > > Request: any help in this matter. > > Addendum: See quoted message [2] from today. > > Remark: > How in the heck can you make a Debian release if you don't even > have > a debugger :-) Like, uh, whats the deal eh? Are you guys debugging > with > the force again ?? You should not do that until you are full Jedi > Kung-Foo > masters, lest you be taken by the dark side... > > > Thanks list! > - Doug > > > [1] On 09/07/2001, Matt Taggart wrote to me thusly: > > >"B. Douglas Hilton" writes... > > > >>> To this end, I purchased a 715/80 box and loaded up Woody > >>> on it thinking (perhaps naively) that this would be an easy > >>> task. To my suprise, the debian-hppa distro does not include > >>> gdb. > >> > >gdb has not been merged upstream yet making inclusion in the > Debian package > >difficult. However, hppa-linux support is in pehc cvs(see the > parisc-linux.org > >web page for details). > > > >I have also produced a Debian package by installing to pseudoroot, > tar'ing it > >up and using alien to convert it. It's not pretty but it works. > This package > >is available at, > > > >ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/debian/unofficial-debs/ > >gdb-hppa_5.0-4.pehc.2_hppa.deb > > > >>> Furthermore, I need a cross-debugger, specifically I need > >>> an hppa -> X86 gdb cross debugger. > >> > >I think you'll need to build your own from pehc cvs then. > > > >>> And finally, I couldn't build gdb for hppa last time I tried, > >>> I tried gdb 4.X, not 5 ( which I will try sometime soon ). > >>> > >>> gdb complained that hppa-hp-linux-gnu was not a supported > >>> platform, is it supported in gdb 5? > >> > >No, as I said above, no upstream version of gdb contains the > hppa-linux > >support currently. > > > > > [2] On 02/11/2002, Roland McGrath spake forth this pronouncement: > > >Try gdb 5.1 from ftp.gnu.org, or else try building from the > sources in the > >debian gdb package. > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone refering this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
