Re: Build problem Linux/i386/Debian/Potato

[Andrew Over <andrew@teknema.com>]

Hi Jon.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote:

> I have build problems on Linux i386 Debian Potato. I've managed to work
> around the compilation errors, but get quite a few segfaults from the
> resulting binary. I am trying to build insight-20000131.

You're not the only one.  In fact, this isn't specifically an insight
problem.  It's filed as bug 54738 against debian's gdb package (which
can't be compiled either).

[SNIP]

> The problems are: 
> 
> - lin-thread.c sees conflicting types for lwpid_t and psaddr_t. I
>   could silence the compiler by removing these definitions from
>   gdb_proc_service.h.
> 
> - i386-linux-nat.c sees a definition of fpregset_t which does not
>   contain the members it expects.

My guess as to what's going on is that the glibc people have tried to
make a type opaque.  Unfortunately, this type is still needed by the
gdb people.

As a result, I'm not really sure who is ultimately responsible.  I'd
considered just posting to both mailing lists and letting the internal 
people sort it out :)

I'm also not really sure why this problem is only afflicting debian
people -- it might just be a case of having a hideously up to date
libc6-dev package in comparison to the other distributions (apt is
wonderful).

I've attached the patch that I wound up using to get this working.  It 
is very nasty, but makes for a short term solution.  Credit to
whomever originally filed bug 54738 :)

Cheers,
--Andrew