Re: gdb on Alpha Tru64 UNIX 5.1A

[Andrew Cagney]

> First bug:
>
> Nowhere could I find any sort of "supported platforms" list for
> gdb-5.2, so the only thing I could do is download, compile, install,
> and try it.  If it's already known not to support this version of the
> OS, or the native compiler, then I've wasted my time, and now I'm
> wasting yours.

The best places to go to find an answer to these sorts of questions are:
- http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/
- http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ (follow the problems link)
The other place is the file gdb/NEWS which is included in the source 
archive.

> Second bug:
>
> rsts-11.mit.edu> gdb src/temacs   
> GNU gdb 5.2
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "alphaev67-dec-osf5.1"...Error reading symbol table: 
> File truncated
>
> This is a dynamically linked executable produced using the system
> compiler and other tools, from a reasonably current CVS snapshot of
> Emacs.  It's not the "dumped" version, so the Emacs unexec code isn't
> to blame.  No warnings were produced at link time.
>
> I would try confirming that the object file is intact using dbx, but
> apparently I haven't got a license for it on the machine at the
> moment.
>
> Using "objdump -t" from binutils 2.12.1 also gets the "File truncated"
> error.  The native "odump -t" seems quite happy with the file,
> displaying almost 55000 symbol table entries.

Given that objdump -t gets "File truncated", I'd suspect that the bug is 
in BINUTILS (BFD specifically).  Can I suggest contacting binutils about 
this: htpp://sources.redhat.com/binutils/

> I looked through gnu.gdb.bug on my local news server, and in the dozen
> messages that weren't spam (out of over 700!), I did find one where
> Andrew Cagney referred to some problem on Tru64 5.1A being fixed in
> the current snapshots, though the description of the original problem
> had expired.  So I downloaded gdb+dejagnu-20020723, and built it
> (after deleting the dejagnu directory, which didn't configure because
> I don't have a C++ compiler, because the gcc build blew out, but I'm
> getting off topic), and it still reports the same problem.

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Andrew