It might be the fact that I am trying to compile gdbsever from the latest version of gdb with older toolchain. I need an upgraded gcc and glibc but they are also failing to build. Not sure what order I should compile them .. Ratin -----Original Message----- From: David Daney [mailto:ddaney@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:41 PM To: Ratin Rahman (mratin) Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: gdbserver Ratin Rahman (mratin) wrote: > Anybody had luck with compiling gdbserver for mipsel? I am using x86 > based machine running Fedora 2.6.11 kernel, the target device is IDT > 434 running Mipsel 2.6.10 kernel. The gcc crosscompiler is > mipsel-linux-gcc and version 3.2.3. > > I did a ./configure --host=mipsel-linux-gnu --target=mipsel-linux-gnu > followed by a make. Make failed with the messages: > > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h:33: syntax > error before numeric constant > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h:49: syntax > error before numeric constant > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h:61: syntax > error before numeric constant > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h:94: syntax > error before numeric constant > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h:112: syntax > error before numeric constant > linux-low.c: In function `kill_lwp': > linux-low.c:760: warning: unused variable `tkill_failed' > make: *** [linux-low.o] Error 1 > [root@Clearnet gdbserver]# nano > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h > [root@Clearnet gdbserver]# nano > /opt/mipseltools/mipsel-linux/sys-include/sys/ptrace.h > > > The content of ptrace.h has the enums declared as > > /* Type of the REQUEST argument to `ptrace.' */ enum __ptrace_request > { > /* Indicate that the process making this request should be traced. > All signals received by this process can be intercepted by its > parent, and its parent can use the other `ptrace' requests. */ > PTRACE_TRACEME = 0, > <==================================line 33 #define PT_TRACE_ME > PTRACE_TRACEME > > /* Return the word in the process's text space at address ADDR. */ > PTRACE_PEEKTEXT = 1, > #define PT_READ_I PTRACE_PEEKTEXT > > > ..which looks pretty normal to me , anybod yhave any clue? > Thanks, > Perhaps your toolchain is broken, or perhaps you need to configure differently. With my glibc-2.3.3/gcc-3.4.3 toolchain I do: ../gdb-6.6/configure --target=mipsel-linux --host=mipsel-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu Then make and voila! gdb, gdbserver et al. are built. David Danay
