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Re: linux 2.5.10 and compiling gdb-5.1.1 from source



On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Jurriaan on Alpha wrote:

> I'm running into some gdb problems with linux 2.5.10:
> 
> ALPHA :gdb ./angband
> GNU gdb 5.1.1
> 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 "alpha-linux"...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/games/angband-2.9.7-alpha1/./angband
> warning: Cannot insert breakpoint -2:
> Cannot access memory at address 0xcfa0
> (gdb)

Hmm...that's odd.  I haven't tried a 2.5 kernel yet, though.

> so I wanted to recompile gdb.
> apt-get source gdb
> cd gdb-5.1.1
> fakeroot debian/rules binary
> 
> and after a lot of messages, the compilation won't proceed because
> makeinfo isn't installed.
> 
> apt-cache search makeinfo points at texi2html as the only solution.
> If I install that package, I still don't have a makeinfo binary.
> The documentation seems to say that texi2html is even better then
> makeinfo. That won't help, however.

The 'texinfo' package contains the makeinfo that I've been using to build
packages:

texinfo: /usr/bin/makeinfo
texinfo: /usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz

C


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