[oe] missing dependency on expat-native in gdb-cross-sdk-7.1-r7.0

Graham Gower graham.gower at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 22:30:20 UTC 2010


On 30 September 2010 01:25, Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 09/29/10 15:59, Holger Freyther wrote:
>> On 09/29/2010 10:32 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>
>>>
>>> I'd suggest adding expat-native to gdb-cross-sdk.inc DEPENDS (which seems to fix the problem) No idea if it is needed
>>> for all versions though.
>>
>> At least GDB 7.x needs expat to parse the register definitions for the CPU.
>> E.g. this is important when using the gdb remote protocol.
>>
>> You should also pass --with-expat to it, right now I have a build issue with
>> the target gdb and this argument.
>>
> Ah, thanks for the heads up. I'll try that and see how I get on.
>
> As an aside there is also an issue with both binutils-cross-sdk and gdb-cross-sdk
> wanting to install libiberty.a
>

Yeah, I've run into this.
http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/2874/

But more is needed, as other gdb variants clobber other binutils libs too.




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