gdb-6.8 not available

gdb-6.8 not available

[Sherman K. Yin]

Hi,

Just a bug report:

Trying this software for the first time today.  I followed the
instructions here: http://crosstool-ng.org and installed
crosstool-ng-1.9.3.tar.bz2 on ubuntu.  While attempting to build the
sample mips-unknown-elf, it attempted to download gdb-6.8 and failed:

[EXTRA]    Retrieving 'gdb-6.8'
[ERROR]    Could not retrieve 'gdb-6.8'.
[00:39] / make: *** [build] Error 1

I think that's because it's no longer available according to
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/.  I tried changing 6.8 to 6.8a in
config/debug/gdb.in and at least the download portion worked. It ran
into something else later:

[INFO ]  Extracting and patching toolchain components
[EXTRA]    Extracting 'gdb-6.8a'
[ERROR]    Build failed in step 'Extracting and patching toolchain components'
[ERROR]    Error happened in
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/functions' in
function 'CT_Pushd' (line unknown, sorry)
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/functions' at line #
792 in function 'CT_Patch'
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh'
at line # 61 in function 'do_debug_gdb_extract'
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/build/debug.sh' at
line # 28 in function 'do_debug_extract'
[ERROR]          called from
'/home/syin/work/programs/lib/ct-ng-1.9.3/scripts/crosstool-NG.sh' at
line # 569 in function 'main'
[ERROR]    Look at '/home/syin/x-tools/mips-unknown-elf/build.log' for
more info on this error.
[ERROR]  (elapsed: 0:06.77)
[00:07] / make: *** [build] Error 1

I haven't looked into this latter error.  Instead, I turned gdb off in
menuconfig because I don't need it.

Thanks,
Sherman

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Re: gdb-6.8 not available

[Yann E. MORIN]

Sherman, All,

On 2013-05-14 15:52 -0700, Sherman K. Yin spake thusly:
> Just a bug report:
> 
> Trying this software for the first time today.  I followed the
> instructions here: http://crosstool-ng.org and installed
> crosstool-ng-1.9.3.tar.bz2 on ubuntu.

1.9.3 is an old version. Latest is 1.18.0. Please upgrade.

>  While attempting to build the
> sample mips-unknown-elf, it attempted to download gdb-6.8 and failed:
> 
> [EXTRA]    Retrieving 'gdb-6.8'
> [ERROR]    Could not retrieve 'gdb-6.8'.
> 
> I think that's because it's no longer available according to
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/.

Indeed. Long story short: some C files included in gdb releases were
generated from other files which were not bundled in the releases, thus
the gdb releases were not compliant with the licensing terms of those
files, and so were re-generated. Ditto for binutils.

It was requested that symlinks were provided so that already-deployed
build systems (such as, but not limited to crosstool-NG) would not break.
While the binutils folks agreed to set up such legacy symlinks, the gdb
folks flatly refused. Hence the breakage.

>  I tried changing 6.8 to 6.8a in
> config/debug/gdb.in and at least the download portion worked. It ran
> into something else later:
> 
> [INFO ]  Extracting and patching toolchain components
> [EXTRA]    Extracting 'gdb-6.8a'
> [ERROR]    Build failed in step 'Extracting and patching toolchain components'

That's been long fixed. Please upgrade.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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Re: gdb-6.8 not available

[Sherman K. Yin]

Thanks Yann, I'll try the new version.  I mistakenly downloaded the
old release because at a glance, I mistakenly thought
http://crosstool-ng.org/download/crosstool-ng/ listed the files in the
order of release with latest at the end.

Thanks,
Sherman

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Re: gdb-6.8 not available

[Yann E. MORIN]

Shaerman, All,

On 2013-05-14 16:08 -0700, Sherman K. Yin spake thusly:
> Thanks Yann, I'll try the new version.  I mistakenly downloaded the
> old release because at a glance, I mistakenly thought
> http://crosstool-ng.org/download/crosstool-ng/ listed the files in the
> order of release with latest at the end.

The latest version is prominently listed on the home page.

Also, the dir-listing provides a way to sort by date rather than
filename. Besides, the first file in the dir-listing when sorted by
filename is "00-LATEST-is-1.18.0" which to me sounds rather explicit...

Finally, when a release is more than two years old, I'd expect people to
think and look if there is a more recent one...

Anyway... :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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