RSB Problem with gdb-7.11

[Chris Johns]

On 11/12/18 11:52 pm, Michael Westfall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to use RSB to build the cross compiler toolchain for rtems 4.10 /
> powerpc, and after a couple of hours working (mostly spent building newlib), RSB
> failed with the following output:
> config: tools/rtems-gdb-7.11-1.cfg
> package: powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> building: powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> error: building powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> Build FAILED
>   See error report: rsb-report-powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1.txt
> error: building powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> Build Set: Time 1:55:31.187692
> Build FAILED
> 
> Looking at the referenced error report, I see:
> 
> checking whether to use python... yes
> checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> checking for python2.6... no
> configure: error: python is missing or unusable
> make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/gem_sw/targetOS/RTEMS/rtems-4.10.2-devel/rtems-source-builder/rtems/build/powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> shell cmd failed: /bin/sh -ex 
> /gem_sw/targetOS/RTEMS/rtems-4.10.2-devel/rtems-source-builder/rtems/build/powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/doit
> error: building powerpc-rtems4.10-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1
> 
> 
> So, it seems to be an error with finding Python, but /usr/bin/python exists and
> is a hard link with /usr/bin/python2.6
> Additionally /usr/bin/python2 exists and is a soft link to /usr/bin/python.
> 
> I don't understand why this is failing.  Ideas?
> 

You need to install the Python development packages for your host so the
Python.h header file plus the libraries are available so gdb can link to them.

Chris