Re: [Gdb] hpux 11 compile issue

[Robert Nesius]

I was leaning towards disabling the cma threads and after
reading your response I'm definitely inclined to do that. :-)

Thanks for the tip, and the background info.  I was a bit
surprised to run into the error, and was even more surprised
to see google could not find any conversations referencing it.
So I'm cc'ing the list in case anyone else runs into this
problem in the future.

Thanks again, Michael.

-Rob

On Aug 12, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Michael Chastain wrote:

> Robert Nesius <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I cannot get 6.1.1 or 6.2 to compile on HPUX 11.00 with ansic or gcc.
> > The problem is in gdb/hpux-threads.c, line 221 seems to be the
> > beginning of a declaration of a global data-structure with the size
> > determined dynamically (?).
>
> Yes, this happens if your hpux system has the old CMA threads package
> and gdb is configured to use them.  That brings in hpux-thread.c.
> And that no longer compiles ever since NUM_REGS was changed from
> a constant to a multi-arched variable.
>
> I can build gdb 6.1.1 on native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00,
> on a system with no CMA threads.
>
> There are two ways around this.  One way is to make the obvious patch:
>
>   -static char regmap[NUM_REGS] =
>   +static char regmap[] =
>
> The other way would be to patch the configure script and disable 
> support
> for CMA threads:
>
>   -if test -f /usr/include/dce/cma_config.h ; then
>   +if false ; then
>
> I recommend disabling support for CMA threads.  Since hpux-thread.c 
> hasn't
> compiled for a while, it is likely that the code has bit-rotted.
>
> If you are actually debugging programs with CMA threads then you'll
> have to try the first way.
>
> Michael C
> GDB QA Guy