Re: Building Gdbserver is failing for Riscv Arch.

[Ghalib Khan <ghalib.khan@exaleapsemi.com>]

I have tried with master sources, with that gdbserver was build successfully, but while using gdbserver following Issue i have hit.

warning: while parsing target description (at line 4): Target description specified unknown architecture "riscv:rv64id"
warning: Could not load XML target description; ignoring
Remote register badly formatted: T0502:50fcffff3f000000;20:005ffef73f000000;thread:p817f.817f;core:2;
here: 3f000000;20:005ffef73f000000;thread:p817f.817f;core:2;
(gdb)

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From: Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz>
Sent: 12 August 2020 12:23 AM
To: Ghalib Khan <ghalib.khan@exaleapsemi.com>; gdb@sourceware.org <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Building Gdbserver is failing for Riscv Arch.

On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 16:38 +0000, Ghalib Khan wrote:
> Hello,
>
>          While building an Native GDBserver for RISCV Arch. with the following steps,
>
>   1.  Downloaded GDB sources from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-9.2.tar.gz
>   2.  untar gdb-9.2.tar.gz<https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-9.2.tar.gz>
>   3.  cd gdb
>   4.  ./configure --prefix=$PWD/install --enable-gdbserver
>   5.  make
>
> Here i have Hit with following Error,

I think gdbserver for RISC-V came after GDB 9. Try GDB master
(git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git) - that should work.

It does work for me. And you don't need to pass `--enable-gdbserver`,
it is build automatically.

HTH, Jan

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