Re: make fails on ubuntu 11.04 VM,

[sandip gangakhedkar <sandipfloyd@gmail.com>]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your quick reply. I am using the last stable version of
Insight - 6.8-1 and gdb v7.2 (fairly recent).

Maybe, I'll check if the folks at gdb have an answer..

Thanks again for your suggestions.

-Sandip


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/03/2011 06:11 PM, sandip gangakhedkar wrote:
>
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> linux-nat.c: In function ‘linux_nat_info_proc_cmd’:
>> linux-nat.c:2879:10: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared
>> with attribute warn_unused_result
>> make[2]: *** [linux-nat.o] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sandipg/insight-6.8-1/gdb'
>> make[1]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sandipg/insight-6.8-1'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> sandipg@sandipg-VirtualBox:~/insight-6.8-1$ make>  makelog
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> linux-nat.c: In function ‘linux_nat_info_proc_cmd’:
>> linux-nat.c:2879:10: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared
>> with attribute warn_unused_result
>> make[2]: *** [linux-nat.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> That's a gdb error. Normally, I would advise you to try the gdb mailing list
> for better advice, but I suspect you may be attempting to build something
> quite old...
>
> For Insight, definitely grab CVS HEAD or git. If you *really* want a
> release, try grabbing the latest gdb release and copying the gdb/gdbtk and
> libgui folders inside it. But I suspect it will be much easier for you to
> just grab the latest sources. FWIW, I use this daily for my own work.
>
> Or you could pass "--disable-werror" to configure to suppress erroring on
> warnings.
>
> If you need to get your specific error fixed, try emailing the gdb@ mailing
> list.
>
> Keith
>



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-Sandip-