Re: Unable to build GDB 13.1 on Solaris 11.3 Sparc

On 2023-03-08 17:43, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 1:34 PM Nemo Nusquam via Gdb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am trying (and failing) to build GDB 13.1 on Solaris 11.3 Sparc.
>>
>> Here is my configuration script.
>>
>> CXXFLAGS='-g3 -O0' \
>> CFLAGS='-g3 -O0' \
>> NM=/usr/bin/gnm \
>> SHELL=/usr/bin/bash \
>> AR=/usr/bin/gar \
>> AS=/usr/bin/as \
>> CC=/home/build/gcc/git/bin/gcc \
>> CXX=/home/build/gcc/git/bin/g++ \
>> ../configure \
>> --with-mpc=/usr/local \
>> --with-gmp=/usr/local \
>> --with-mpfr=/usr/local \
>> --enable-64-bit-bfd \
>> --enable-tui \
>> --with-curses \
>> --disable-bootstrap \
>> --disable-binutils \
>> --disable-ld \
>> --disable-gprof \
>> --disable-gprofng \
>> --disable-gold \
>> --disable-gas \
>> --disable-sim
>>
>> (Some flags taken from https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingNatively .)
>>
>> The makefile creates ./gdb inside the build directory and then stops as
>> follows:
>>
>> checking for libgmp... no
>> configure: error: GMP is missing or unusable
>> gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:11447: configure-gdb] Error 1
>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/home/build/opt/gdb-13.1/bld'
> This was a known issue in GDB 13.1, It has been fixed/changed on the
> trunk and will be included with GDB 14. For pre-GDB 14, the option you
> want to use for configure is --with-libgmp-prefix= . libmpfr is
> similar you need to use --with-libmpfr-prefix .
> These options are documented in the installation documentation for GDB
> 13 but they were not part of the toplevel configure which is why they
> were not mentioned there. The options --with-gmp= and --with--mpfr=
> were only originally used for building GCC (GCC, GDB, binutils [and
> newlib] all share the same toplevel configure/make file system) and
> this was why folks got confused and even more I made the fix for this
> to use these options also for GDB.

Thank you, Andrew.  I will try rebuilding as you suggest.

> This issue was recorded as
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28500 .
I tried searching but I erroneously assumed it was a Solaris problem and 
found nothing relevant.


> Thanks,
> Andrew Pinski

Thank you,
N.

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