Building GDB

[Levente <leventelist@gmail.com>]

Hi all,



I'm putting together a toolchain for AVR micro-controllers, and want to 
build GDB without binutils. I checked out the source, and when I'm on 
the binutils-2_42 tag, the build fails with this:

CXX    tui/tui-command.o
In file included from ../../gdb/tui/tui-data.h:28,
                   from ../../gdb/tui/tui-command.c:24:
../../gdb/../gdbsupport/gdb-checked-static-cast.h: In instantiation of 
‘T gdb::checked_static_cast(V*) [with T = tui_cmd_window*; V = 
tui_win_info]’:
../../gdb/tui/tui-command.c:65:15:   required from here
../../gdb/../gdbsupport/gdb-checked-static-cast.h:63:14: error: cannot 
convert from pointer to base class ‘tui_win_info’ to pointer to derived 
class ‘tui_cmd_window’ because the base is virtual
     63 |   T result = static_cast<T> (v);
        |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1930: tui/tui-command.o] Error 1


So I decided to build gdb and binutils separately from different 
commits. I can disable GDB by specifying --without-gdb.

The question is, how can I build GDB without binutils?

So here is what I want to do:

check out binutils-2_42
configure/build/install binutils
clean the repo
chec out gdb-14.1-release
configure/build/install gcc

How can I do this?



Thanks,
Lev

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