When I built gdb6 by ports, some error had reported. my freebsd box: #uname -a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #2: Tue Feb 17 11:57:07 CST 2004 /usr/src/sys/compile/KERNAL_VPN i386 cpu: pentium3 1000 memory: 512M here is the error message: /usr/ports/devel/gdb6 # make ===> Building for gdb-6_20040413 gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/libiberty' gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/libiberty/testsuite' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/libiberty' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/intl' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/intl' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd' gmake all-recursive gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd' Making all in doc gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd/doc' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd/doc' Making all in po gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd/po' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd/po' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/bfd' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes' gmake all-recursive gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes' Making all in po gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes/po' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes/po' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes' gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes' gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/opcodes' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/etc' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/etc' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/mmalloc' gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/mmalloc' gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/gdb' cc -c -O -pipe -DRL_NO_COMPAT -I. -I. -I./config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./../include/opcode -I../bfd -I./../bfd -I./../include -I../intl -I./../intl -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wformat-nonliteral ./cli/cli-dump.c ./cli/cli-dump.c: In function `scan_expression_with_cleanup': ./cli/cli-dump.c:64: too many arguments to function `rl_savestring' ./cli/cli-dump.c: In function `scan_filename_with_cleanup': ./cli/cli-dump.c:108: too many arguments to function `rl_savestring' gmake[1]: *** [cli-dump.o] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/gdb6/work/gdb+dejagnu-20040413/gdb' gmake: *** [all-gdb] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gdb6. #error message end could you help me? thanks for any help. mike