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- From: grossman@cygnus.com (Stu Grossman)
- Subject: Building gcc/gdb on HP/UX with debugging
- Message-ID: <9301042243.AA25935@cygnus.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
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- References: <SBCHANIN.93Jan3135300@raisin-nut.ai.mit.edu>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:43:43 GMT
- Approved: bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 39
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- > 1)Do I need to build gas before building gcc in order to get debugging
- > support?
-
- There are really two issues here. Are you talking about debugging the
- compiler, or debugging your gcc compiled programs? In the former case, you
- will definately need to use Utah's pa-gas when building gcc after stage 1.
-
- If you don't use Utah's pa-gas for building gcc, you will have to compile it
- WITHOUT the -g option because the native HP assembler doesn't understand the
- .stabxxx pseudo-ops. You will still get a working gcc which is capable of
- generating debug output, but you won't be able to debug gcc itself.
-
- In either case, you will need to use Utah's pa-gas in order to use gcc's
- debugging info.
-
- > 3)Will gcc-2.3.3 support HP PA with debugging or do I need the version
- > of 2.3.1 which is on jaguar (and has been specifically ported for HP
- > PA)? I think building the 2.3.3 release would be better than using
- > the 2.1.1 because of bug fixes, etc.
-
- I've been using 2.3.1 from Utah with very few problems. I haven't tried
- 2.3.3 yet.
-
- > 3)Once I have gcc-2.x built, do I need to do anything special to build
- > pa-gdb-4.6?
-
- Make sure that you install the appropriate patch file from Utah over the
- standard GDB-4.6 distribution. The name is pa-gdb-4.6.tar.Z. It won't even
- compile without that.
-
- > 4)Are there any plans to integrate the utah changes into the
- > gas/gcc/gdb standard distributions?
-
- I have been doing a lot of work recently on the PA-GDB port. It should come
- out with release 4.8 of GDB.
-
- Stu Grossman
- Cygnus Support
-
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