Re: gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:28:05PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi Everyone-
> 
> I'd like to get gdb set up on my machine but it's giving me some
> problems.  I'm running testing on G4 briq from Total Impact.  When I try
> to run a program in a gdb session it fails saying it doesn't know how to
> run.  Here's an example session:
> 
> andrew.dixon@wolf:~/hello$ ./hello 
> Hello World!!!!!!!!!!!
> andrew.dixon@wolf:~/hello$ gdb hello
> GNU gdb 4.17
> Copyright 1998 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 "--host=ppc-unknown-linux-gnu
> --target=powerpc-elf"...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /var/home2/andrew.dixon/hello/hello 
> Don't know how to run.  Try "help target".
> (gdb) 

That's not Debian's GDB, I'm pretty sure.  We would never have built it
with --host=ppc-unknown-linux-gnu (it's powerpc-*) or with
--target=powerpc-elf (the reason Run doesn't work).

As suggested, use the one in unstable.  Or even testing.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer