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

[Gene Smith <gds@chartertn.net>]

David Fernandez wrote, On 05/27/2012 02:49 PM:
> 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.

I doubt there is anything wrong with it. The spec file discards the 
insight included readline as well as all the tcl-tk stuff and just uses 
the system versions. But I have always used insight's readline since I 
didn't know there was an alternative.

>> 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.

Yes, I tried that and it make rpm and srpm which installs and runs and 
"help" shows configured as target=arm-none-eabi as I entered in the spec 
file. The spec file seems to only use the --with-system-readline so it 
never sees the bug you ran into.

> 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

You can also get a pre-build gcc version from Mentor/Codesourcery that 
that includes all the source and giant build file that you may have to 
adjust to build all the tools: gcc, gdb, newlib etc. It doesn't include 
insight however since they have moved to using Eclipse.

> 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?

This is how I typically configure w/o using the included tcl/tk. I think 
the various "--with-tcl=/usr/lib" may fix the error you see (may have to 
adjust the path).

../insight_sources/configure -v --quiet --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --target=arm-none-eabi --enable-interwork --enable-multilib \
    --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --disable-werror \
    --with-tcl=/usr/lib --with-tk=/usr/lib --with-itcl=/usr/lib \
    --with-itclconfig=/usr/lib --with-itkconfig=/usr/lib