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

Gene Smith <[email protected]> Sun, 27 May 2012 02:19:30 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.debugging.insight
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Fernandez wrote, On 05/25/2012 06:10 PM:
> Hi Keith,
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Keith Seitz<[email protected]>  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

>>> ~/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

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.

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.

-gene