Re: gdbserver in configure scripts

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Philip Blundell wrote:
> 
> It doesn't currently work to build a cross GDB targeting, say, m68k-linux (or
> any other gdbserver-enabled platform).  The configure script fails with:
> 
> linking /usr/src/sourceware/src/gdb/gdbserver/../config/nm-empty.h to nm.h
> configure: error: /usr/src/sourceware/src/gdb/gdbserver/../config/nm-empty.h: File not found
> configure: error: /usr/src/sourceware/src/gdb/gdbserver/configure failed for gdbserver

FYI,

I've checked in a patch to this specific problem (it shouldn't create
the link).  tm-linix.h still doesn't build though.

	Andrew

> This would be prevented by the following commented-out code in configure.in:
> 
> # else
> # GDBserver is only useful in a "native" enviroment
> # configdirs=`echo $configdirs | sed 's/gdbserver//'`
> 
> Does anybody know of a reason why this code should not be enabled?
> 
> (I'm not sure what the story is with nm-empty.h.  I don't have one in my tree;
> the ChangeLog suggests that it used to exist, but I didn't see anything
> referring to its removal.)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> p.