building gdb for sparc with gcc.3.3.3

[Jerry Needell]

thanks for the reply -
On Nov 17, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 07:38 -0500, Jerry Needell wrote:
>> I thought this had been addressed earlier, but I have not been able to
>> find anything in the archives or GNATS so I'll ask it here.
>>
>> i am trying to build the sparc-rtems toolset on a Fedora Core 2 system
>> using gcc. 3.3.3 but gdb 5.2 fails to build because it contains
>> multi-string litererals which are not permitted by gcc 3.3.3. Is there
>> a patch to fix this or am I just missing some other piece of
>> information.
> Seems so. This issue is supposed to be addressed in rtems-gdb patches.
> So if you insist on rebuilding the toolchain, get yourself the
> *.nosrc.rpms and try to get them building.

This is what I am doing. I apply the three patches, but the compilation  
still fails.

>
> However, these also won't bring you much further, because you'll then
> hit another bug in gdb-5.2, nobody has taken care about so far..
What problem is this?

>
>>  Is anyone else using FC2 as a development platform?
> Until last week, yes - I just switched to FC3.
>
> However, you can simply use the RH-7.3 binaries from
> ftp://ftp.rtems.com.
unfortunately, I do not want to use the precompiled binaries for  
several reasons, but one being that I  do not want the tree located in  
/opt/rtems

>
> In case you didn't already do, I'd recommend you to install apt from
> fedora.us and then to install
> ftp://ftp.rtems.com/pub/rtems/linux/redhat/7.3/i386/apt/RPMS.rtems 
> -4.6/rtems-4.6-apt-conf-0.0-0.noarch.rpm
>
> It configures apt in such way that it will automatically d/l and  
> install
> the RH-7.3 rpms at rtems.com. Unfortunately there currently are no FC*
> rpms available. In general, these RPMS are rebuildable under FC2,
> however rtems-4.6-sparc-rtems-gdb-5.2 is an exception.
What do you use as a replacement?
- Jerry
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> Ralf
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