Re: Cross Compiling GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:00:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:43:05PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:40:12PM +0100, Chris.Pedley@arm.com wrote:
> >>Is it actually possible to cross compile GDB for anything other than
> >>cygwin.  In the output from ./configure when trying to configure for
> >>cross compiling using the GNU ARM tools I get the message: configure:
> >>cross-compiling for a non-cygwin target is not supported
> >>
> >>Also, can anyone confirm to me what the exact definitions of host,
> >>target and build are when passed to ./configure?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >
> >It sounds like you're using the Cygwin sources for GDB.  If you're not
> >building a Cygwin-targeted GDB, don't do that - or direct comments to
> >the cygwin list.
> 
> "Cygwin sources for gdb"?  The sources for cygwin's gdb are the same as
> for any other platform.

If so I apologize, but I swear I've heard of local patches from the
cygwin people before.  Maybe I was thinking of another tool?

In any case, that error message doesn't come from the FSF sources
anywhere.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer