Re: build/2536: Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo, elfcore_write_prstatus

Re: build/2536: Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo, elfcore_write_prstatus

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

The following reply was made to PR build/2536; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: build/2536: Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo,
	elfcore_write_prstatus
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:50:57 -0400

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:28:01AM -0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
 >  I wrote:
 >  "Something (seems to have) changed in the bfd side, maybe related to the recent libtool update,
 >  which triggers this while configuring bfd:
 
 I suggest sending mail to the binutils list about this, then.
 
 -- 
 Daniel Jacobowitz
 CodeSourcery

Re: build/2536: Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo, elfcore_write_prstatus

[Pedro Alves]

The following reply was made to PR build/2536; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-prs@sourceware.org,
 selsky@columbia.edu
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: build/2536: Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo, elfcore_write_prstatus
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:26:23 +0100

 This seems to be related to a recend bfd change.  From here:
 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-10/msg00283.html
 
 I wrote:
 "Something (seems to have) changed in the bfd side, maybe related to the recent libtool update,
 which triggers this while configuring bfd:
 
  configure:18672: checking sys/procfs.h usability
  configure:18684: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
  In file included from /usr/include/sys/procfs.h:50,
                   from conftest.c:104:
  /usr/include/sys/old_procfs.h:57:2: #error "Cannot use procfs in the large file compilation environment"
 
 With the end result being that HAVE_PRPSINFO_T and HAVE_PSINFO_T
 end up undefined in bfd's config.h, thus skipping including
 elfcore_write_prpsinfo and elfcore_write_prstatus in libbfd.a (from bfd/elf.c).
 
 bfd's configure is tripping on this in /usr/include/sys/old_procfs.h:
 
  #if !defined(_LP64) && _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64
  #error  "Cannot use procfs in the large file compilation environment"
  #endif
 
 Because bfd's configure is now noticing that _FILE_OFFSET_BITS is 64,
 while it didn't a few weeks ago.
 
  target/host/build: i386-pc-solaris2.11-gcc
 
  $uname -a
  SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
 
  $gcc -v
  Reading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/3.4.3/specs
  Configured  with: /builds/sfwnv-86/usr/src/cmd/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/configure --prefix=/usr/sfw --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --with-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc --enable-shared
  Thread model: posix
  gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-20050802)"

build/2536: Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo, elfcore_write_prstatus

[selsky]

>Number:         2536
>Category:       build
>Synopsis:       Undefined symbols: elfcore_write_prpsinfo, elfcore_write_prstatus
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 15 05:38:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     selsky@columbia.edu
>Release:        gdb-6.8.50.20081014
>Organization:
>Environment:
Solaris 9/sparc
>Description:
make fails with the following error:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/gnu/gdb-6.8.50.20081014/obj/solaris9/gdb'
rm -f gdb
gcc -g -O2      \
	-o gdb gdb.o libgdb.a \
	   ../readline/libreadline.a ../opcodes/libopcodes.a ../bfd/libbfd.a ./../intl/libintl.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a     -ldl -lcurses -lz -lsocket -lnsl -lm   ../libiberty/libiberty.a  gnulib/libgnu.a 
Undefined			first referenced
 symbol  			    in file
elfcore_write_prpsinfo              libgdb.a(procfs.o)
elfcore_write_prstatus              libgdb.a(procfs.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to gdb
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [gdb] Error 1

gcc is 4.2.4
Source code is in /src/gnu/gdb-6.8.50.20081014/src.  I'm building in /src/gnu/gdb-6.8.50.20081014/obj/solaris9/gdb since I build for multiple architectures from a single source tree.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ ../../src/configure --prefix=/opt/gdb-6.8.50.20081014
$ make
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: