Re: GDB 5.0 won't build on GNU/Linux/sparc

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> gdb/sparc-tdep.c contains code in supply_gregset() and fill_gregset()
> that will only compile on Solaris/sparc.  glibc doesn't define
> prgreg_t, R_I7, R_PS, R_PC, R_nPC nor R_Y.  In fact, registers from i0
> to i7 aren't even available in glibc's gregset.  The solution is to
> disable USE_PROC_FS, which can be accomplished by #including the
> generic config/nm-linux.h from config/sparc/nm-linux.h, as all other
> architecture-specific `nm-linux.h's do (actually, it's also missing
> from config/powerpc/nm-linux.h).  Unfortunately, I don't have access to a
> GNU/Linux/powerpc platform to test the second change.  On
> GNU/Linux/sparc, it builds correctly, but it still doesn't work :-(
> child_resume is called with step==1, and aborts because
> SOFTWARE_SINGLE_STEP_P is also 1.  I'm investigating.  Meanwhile, ok
> to install?  Release branch?

Just the Linux/SPARC part of this patch is approved for the 5.0 branch.
It's up to Kevin Buettner decide what to do with the ppc part (w.r.t
5.0).

Thanks!

	Andrew