[Crash] Crash 2.9 compile failure

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:44:45AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> Given that you say that a "normal gdb 5.0" gets built, and that you
> cannot find any references to mergeobjs and mergelibs in the sources,
> it almost sounds like the "stock" gdb-5.0.tar.gz tarball was manually
> unzip'd -- instead of allowing the top-level Makefile to do it?

That was my impression, too.  But I repeated it a few times with completly
stock tarballs, even without the specfile I wanted to use for building, etc..


> The top-level Makefile unzips all but about a dozen gdb files from
> gdb-5.0.tar.gz, one of them being Makefile.in, which in turn creates
> the Makefile in ./gdb-5.0/gdb.  In that Makefile you should see
> the following references to mergeobjs and mergelibs:
> 
> gdb$(EXEEXT): main.o libgdb.a $(ADD_DEPS) $(CDEPS) $(TDEPLIBS)
>         @(cd ../..; make --no-print-directory GDB_FLAGS=-DGDB library)
>         @rm -f gdb$(EXEEXT)
>         $(HLDENV) $(CC_LD) $(INTERNAL_LDFLAGS) $(WIN32LDAPP) -o `cat mergeobj`
> main.o libgdb.a $(TDEPLIBS) $(TUI_LIBRARY) $(CLIBS) $(LOADLIBES) `cat mergelibs`
> 
> The line above was modified to create the toplevel crash executable instead
> of the gdb executable, i.e, so it's impossible for a gdb executable to get
> built.
> 
> In any case, I'm only guessing.  What I need to see is a copy of the full
> build output.  Start from scratch in a clean directory, and do this:
> 
>   # tar xvzmf crash2.9.tar.gz
>   ...
>   # cd crash2.9
>   # make > save.this 2>&1
> 
> The save.this file is going to be lengthy, but without it, it's difficult
> to speculate what's happened.

Ok, attached.

	Christoph

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Christoph Hellwig
Kernel Engineer Unix/Linux Integration
Caldera Deutschland GmbH