[oe] Building gdbserver only

[Geoffrey Wossum]

On Monday 14 April 2008 05:58:26 pm Khem Raj wrote:
> Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
> > It does support building gdbserver for the AVR32, though.  Trouble is,
> > there doesn't seem to be an "easy" way to build just gdbserver.  To build
> > just gdbserver, you run the gdb-${PV}/gdb/gdbserver/configure instead of
> > gdb-${PV}/configure.  oe_runconf() substitutes the value of ${S} in.  If
> > you try to modify ${S} so that oe_runconf() executes the correct
> > configure script, then ${S} is screwed  up for do_patch() and the patches
> > won't apply.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to solve this dillemma?
>
> How about building gdb completely but package only gdbserver.

The problem is that gdb does not build, only gdbserver.  I can't figure out a 
way to get OE to build just gdbserver for me.  oe_doconf() always wants to 
run ${S}/configure, but I need it to run ${S}/gdb/gdbserver/configure.  If I 
change S, then the patching fails.  

What would be cool is if oe_doconf() took an optional parameter telling it 
where the configure script is, instead of always using ${S}/configure.

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Geoffrey