Re: Compiling gdb-5.1.1-1 on hppa

[Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>]

> It still will not compile on my machine. Configure works
> its way down to gdb, then pukes and dies with the following
> error:
> 
> checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
> configure: error: *** Gdb does not support host hppa-unknown-linux-gnu
> Configure in /usr/src/gdb-5.1.1/build using "mt-frag"

you probably did not apply the hppa patch in the package. you should 
unpack the source like this:

dpkg-source -x gdb_5.1.1-1.dsc
cd gdb-5.1.1
make -f debian/rules apply-patches

then you can do your configure/make 

randolph
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