RE: Failed to build GDB-5.0

["Laxman Bana" <lbana@intellinet-tech.com>]

Thanks I found the answer by googling but now I have a problem at run time.
The symbol format is not able to recognize at runtime (forgot the error
message...something like dwarf_swp...). I am moving to gdb-6.0 now

-Thanks once again.
-Laxman


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laxman Bana [mailto:lbana@intellinet-tech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:38 PM
> To: gdb@sources.redhat.com; crossgcc@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Failed to build GDB-5.0
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>    I am having a problem in building gdb for the target powerpc.
> If you have had seen this problem earlier please
> let me know how you get it fixed. Please see my environment settings:
>
> Target: MPC8560 ADS
> Gnu Tools Distributor: MetroWerks (MPC8560ADS_20041105-3.0-bsp.tgz)
>
> $uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-6 #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST
> 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> $export CC=powerpc-linux-gnuspe-gcc
> $export CXX=powerpc-linux-gnuspe-g++
> $export BUILD_CC=gcc
> $export CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc
> $export
> PREFIX=/opt/Embedix/usr/local/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/gcc-3.3.e500-gl
> ibc-2.3.2-linuxspe
> $export TARGET=powerpc-linux-gnuspe
> $mkdir build_gdb
> $cd build_gdb
> $/opt/metrowerks/MPC8560ADS_20041105-3.0/Packages/gdb-5.0-devel/co
> nfigure --prefix=$PREFIX --target=$TARGET --host=i686
>
>  <...for outout please see the attached file tmp.configuration ....>
>
> GDB configuration fails at
>
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Laxman Bana