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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:54:18 -0600
From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gdb/libiberty failure
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Bruce Evans writes:
> >-current falls over on building dependencies on gdb/libiberty.
> 
> It works fine in -current here.
> 
> >.bin/gdb/libiberty/Makefile.usr.bin.gdb.libiberty.Makefile /usr/tuna/src/gnu/usr 
> >*** gnu.usr.bin.gdb.libiberty.Makefile  Mon Feb  3 15:37:51 1997
> >--- /usr/tuna/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libiberty/Makefile    Mon Feb  3 16:16:38 1997
> >***************
> >*** 5,12 ****
> >  
> >  SRCS= argv.c basename.c concat.c cplus-dem.c fdmatch.c getopt.c \
> >        getopt1.c getruntime.c hex.c floatformat.c obstack.c spaces.c \
> >!       strerror.c strsignal.c vasprintf.c xatexit.c xexit.c \
> >!       xmalloc.c xstrdup.c xstrerror.c insque.c
> >  
> >  CFLAGS+= -I$(.CURDIR) -I$(.CURDIR)/../gdb/.
> >  NOPROFILE=no
> >--- 5,11 ----
> >  
> >  SRCS= argv.c basename.c concat.c cplus-dem.c fdmatch.c getopt.c \
> >        getopt1.c getruntime.c hex.c floatformat.c obstack.c spaces.c \
> >!       insque.c
> >  
> >  CFLAGS+= -I$(.CURDIR) -I$(.CURDIR)/../gdb/.
> >  NOPROFILE=no
> 
> However, it shouldn't be using all that cruft, especially vasprintf(),
> which was nuked in the old gdb when a better version was put in the
> library.
> 
> There seems to be a linkage bug.  vasprintf.o from liberty.a is used,
> but strerror.o from liberty.a is not used - the standard (shared) version
> is used instead.  I would have expected the (broken) behaviour for
> strerror.o in both cases.

Well, the Makefile in gnu/usr.bin/gdb/libiberty is looking for those sources
in src/contrib/gdb/libiberty, but they no longer exist.  The last cvsup run
that I did last night (2/3/97, about 4:00 CST) actually deleted the sources
in question from contrib/gdb/libiberty.
--
Jonathan