From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, GDB Discussion <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ia64 target?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010314052325.ZM17343@ocotillo.lan>
References: <3AAEA47E.339FF4BD@cygnus.com> <ac131313@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00104.html

On Mar 13,  5:51pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> What is a good ia64 target?  The maintainer file currently notes:
> 
>         ia64            (--target=ia64-elf broken)
> 
> if I try to configure that, nothing interesting happens (the GDB
> directory didn't appear to even be created).
> 
> Could someone suggest a better generic ia64 target that can be used to
> build a cross debug ia64 GDB.

How about...

    --target=ia64-unknown-linux

I've successfully done a configure and make with
--target=ia64-unknown-linux on the following hosts:

    i386-unknown-freebsd4.2
    i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5
    i386-pc-solaris2.8
    i686-pc-linux-gnu
    ia64-unknown-linux

Of course, this only takes care of the build portion.  If you want to
(somehow) test the resulting gdb, you need to have access to an IA-64
machine running Linux or a simulator (running Linux).

See http://www.software.hp.com/products/LIA64/overview4a.htm for info
on an IA-64 simulator.  (I did much of the initial development with an
i686-pc-linux-gnu cross ia64-unknown-linux GDB using HP's ski
simulator.  It is able to boot Linux and runs amazingly well.)

It may also be possible to use HP's NUE environment to do the testing
I have not tried this.

Kevin