Re: Re: Error while "make all": "make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/libreadline.a', needed by `gdb'. Stop."

[David Fernandez <david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com>]

On 27/05/12 07:19, Gene Smith wrote:
> David Fernandez wrote, On 05/25/2012 06:10 PM:
>> Hi Keith,
>>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Keith Seitz<keiths@redhat.com>  wrote:
>>> On 05/24/2012 03:45 PM, David Fernandez wrote:
>>>
>>>> I get the sources by doing:
>>>> yumdownloader --source insight
>>>> rpm -i insight-7.4.50-1.20120403cvs.fc16.src.rpm
>>>> cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS; rpmbuild -bp insight.spec
>>>> cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/arm-eabi/insight-7.4.50
>
> Actually cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT
>      mkdir -p arm-eabi/insight-7.4.50
>      cd arm-eabi/insight-7.4.50
>
Yes, right, I pretend that I had created the folder early on...
>>>> ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/insight-7.4.50/configure --target=arm-eabi -v 2>&1 |
>>>> tee configure.out
>
> I see the same error. Doing this instead allows it to build as is:
> ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/insight-7.4.50/configure --with-system-readline 
> --target=arm-eabi -v 2>&1 | tee configure.out
>
Excellent, it builds!
> The problem is that one of the patches to gdb/Makefile takes out the 
> path to readline.
> If I put it back in it also works w/o the --with-system-readline:
> Remove last patch from 
> rpmbuild/SOURCES/insight-7.4.50-readline-system.patch.
>
I'll go with the first solution, unless the system readline gives any 
problem... unless you are sure that something is wrong with it.
> Are you trying to build an RPM for arm-eabi? I've never built an RPM 
> (or maybe once long ago)
> so what is the next step? "make install" ?? I use insight with 
> embedded arm-eabi constantly but
> have made my own custom version that works well from a CVS snapshot 
> and codesourery's gdb source.
>
I was just building a toochain, that will require su -c 'make install' 
(or sudo make install if you have sudo configured, like in Ubuntu).

For a rpm, we would need to modify the SPEC file to build insight for 
arm-eabi, using --with-system-readline. Then doing rpmbuild --rebuild, 
and hopefully we will end with a binary rpm in RPMS folder.

The difficult thing is to compile gcc, that requires some more switches 
when configuring, and pehaps a stripped version of the C runtime 
library, more appropriate for embedded systems, like newlib. There is a 
good guide, other than these hitches for that in ecos.sourceware.org

Just one more thing that you guys might now by heart, but I forgot long 
ago... When running the installed arm-eabi-insight, I get the following:

ide_initialize_paths failed: Can't find the GUI Tcl library in the 
following directories:
     /usr/local/usr/share/insight/gui /usr/local/share/insight/gui 
/usr/share/insight/gui /usr/libgui/library /usr/src/libgui/library 
/usr/local/usr/share/insight/ide /usr/local/share/insight/ide 
/usr/share/insight/ide /usr/local/libide/library

Surely there is a funny TCL environment variable, or a funny tcl command 
to make sure that the programs find those things... Could you tell me 
which one is it that I'm missing?

Cheers