GDB 6.8 (gdb-6.8.0.20090727.tar.bz2) fails to build for mingw32

[BOUCHER Jean]

Hello, 
I assume I should be able to build GDB 6.8 for native (ie: non-Cygwin)
WinVista SP2 support using a mingw version og gcc. I was trying to
diagnose a problem I encountered with an environment that used the
original official release of GDB 6.8 for i686-pc-cygwin that came with
Aonix/AdaCore's GNU GNAT. Thought I'd try a standalone command-line
version built for mingw32. I wasn't able to build it, unfortunately. It
appears to be a problem with the use of USE_WIN32API. First error seen
was:

address@hidden /cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc
$  ../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/configure --target=powerpc-unknown-eabi
--build=i686-pc-mingw32
...
(appears to complete successfully)

address@hidden /cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc
$ make
...
gcc -c -g -O2 -DDEFAULT_INLINE=PSIM_INLINE_LOCALS
-DWITH_HOST_BYTE_ORDER=LITTLE_ENDIAN -DWITH_SMP=5
-DHAVE_TERMIOS_STRUCTURE -DHAVE_TERMIOS_CLINE -DHAVE_DEVZERO
-D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK  -I. -I../../../../sim/ppc
-I../../../../sim/ppc/../../include -I../../bfd
-I../../../../sim/ppc/../../bfd -I../../gdb
-I../../../../sim/ppc/../../gdb  -I../../../../sim/ppc/../../gdb/config
-I../../intl -DHAVE_COMMON_FPU -I../common
-I../../../../sim/ppc/../common ../../../../sim/ppc/emul_netbsd.c
gcc -c -g -O2 -DDEFAULT_INLINE=PSIM_INLINE_LOCALS
-DWITH_HOST_BYTE_ORDER=LITTLE_ENDIAN -DWITH_SMP=5
-DHAVE_TERMIOS_STRUCTURE -DHAVE_TERMIOS_CLINE -DHAVE_DEVZERO
-D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK  -I. -I../../../../sim/ppc -I../../../..
/sim/ppc/../../include -I../../bfd -I../../../../sim/ppc/../../bfd
-I../../gdb -I../../../../sim/ppc/../../gdb
-I../../../../sim/ppc/../../gdb/config -I../../intl -DHAVE_COMMON_FPU
-I../common -I../../../../sim/ppc/../common
../../../../sim/ppc/emul_unix.c
../../../../sim/ppc/emul_unix.c: In function `do_unix_mkdir':
../../../../sim/ppc/emul_unix.c:734: error: too few arguments to
function `mkdir'
make[3]: *** [emul_unix.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/build/s
im/ppc'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/build/s
im'
make[1]: *** [all-sim] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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$



Tried to patch that in ./sim/ppc/emul_unix.c:733 with:

#if 0    //def USE_WIN32API
  status = mkdir(path);
#else
  status = mkdir(path, mode);
#endif


only to get:


address@hidden /cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc
$ make
...
gcc -c -g -O2   -I. -I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gd
b/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I../../gdb-6
.8.0.20090727/gdb/../include/opcode
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/../readline/.
. -I../bfd -I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/../bfd
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/
../include -I../libdecnumber
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/../libdecnumber -I./
../intl  -DMI_OUT=1  -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wpointer-arith
-Wforma
t-nonliteral -Wno-unused -Wno-switch -Wno-char-subscripts -Werror
../../gdb-6.8.
0.20090727/gdb/solib-svr4.c
gcc -c -g -O2   -I. -I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gd
b/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I../../gdb-6
.8.0.20090727/gdb/../include/opcode
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/../readline/.
. -I../bfd -I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/../bfd
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/
../include -I../libdecnumber
-I../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/../libdecnumber -I./
../intl  -DMI_OUT=1  -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wpointer-arith
-Wforma
t-nonliteral -Wno-unused -Wno-switch -Wno-char-subscripts -Werror
../../gdb-6.8.
0.20090727/gdb/ser-base.c
In file included from ../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/gdb_select.h:28,
                 from ../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/ser-base.c:26:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/winsock2.h:
103:2: #
warning "fd_set and associated macros have been defined in sys/types.
This
may cause runtime problems with W32 sockets"
In file included from ../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/gdb_select.h:28,
                 from ../../gdb-6.8.0.20090727/gdb/ser-base.c:26:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/winsock2.h:
109: error: redefinition of `struct timeval'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/winsock2.h:
632: error: conflicting types for 'select'
/usr/include/sys/select.h:31: error: previous declaration of 'select'
was here
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/winsock2.h:
632: error: conflicting types for 'select'
/usr/include/sys/select.h:31: error: previous declaration of 'select'
was here
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/winsock2.h:
635: error: conflicting types for 'gethostname'
/usr/include/sys/unistd.h:206: error: previous declaration of
'gethostname' was here
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/winsock2.h:
635: error: conflicting types for 'gethostname'
/usr/include/sys/unistd.h:206: error: previous declaration of
'gethostname' was here
make[2]: *** [ser-base.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc/gdb'
make[1]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Obviously, this is more serious than I had anticipated.  FYI: 

address@hidden /cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0 Satellite 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

address@hidden /cygdrive/C/Users/jboucher/Documents/gdb/build4ppc
$ gcc  -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/specs
Configured with:
/managed/gcc-build/final-v3-bootstrap/gcc-3.4.4-999/configure -
-verbose --program-suffix=-3 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc
--libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/s
hare/info --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,d,f77,pascal,java,objc
--enable-nls --wit
hout-included-gettext --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --without-x
--enabl
e-libgcj --disable-java-awt --with-system-zlib --enable-interpreter
--disable-li
bgcj-debug --enable-threads=posix --enable-java-gc=boehm
--disable-win32-registr
y --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-hash-synchronization
--enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)

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$


Thought you might like to know. 

Jean.