Re: gdb/2045: gdb 6.4 compilation fails on HPUX 10

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

The following reply was made to PR gdb/2045; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb/2045: gdb 6.4 compilation fails on HPUX 10
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:19:08 -0500

 On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:14:07PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
 > > Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:56:12 -0500
 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
 > > 
 > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:38:01PM -0000, Mark Kettenis wrote:
 > > >  Hi,
 > > >  
 > > >  I've been looking into the problem today.  I remember stumbling across
 > > >  the -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE issue, and could indeed reproduce it.  I'm
 > > >  working on a proper fix, but it seems the HP-UX 10.20 header files are
 > > >  seriously borked, so the "right" fix doesn't quite work :(.
 > > 
 > > Can you reproduce this with HEAD?  I'm pretty sure one of the HP/UX
 > > binutils developers fixed this, possibly just after GDB 6.4 branched.
 > 
 > Oh yes, sorry, I reproduces this with head (didn't try with the
 > official gdb 6.4 release).  I tried to fix this by using
 > AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and dumping the fseeko64/ftello64 stuff.
 > Unfortunately the HP-UX 10.20 header files are broken for
 > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.  In <sys/fcntl.h> they do something like:
 > 
 > static open(a,b,c) const char *a; mode_t c; { return __open64(a,b,c); }
 > 
 > without providing a protytype for __open64.  Of course that makes gcc
 > spit out all kinds of warnings, which are fatal with -Werror.
 > 
 > Not sure what to do about it yet :(.
 
 Steve, I really thought you'd fixed this... any comment?
 
 
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