alexande@CS.UNC.EDU (Geoffrey D. Alexander) (02/14/90)
I just tried to make gdb 3.5 on multiple systems. I first ran the followiung on a sparc station: config.dbx sun4os4 make This worked fine. I then moved to a sun 3 and ran the following (in the same directory): config.dbx sun3os4 make After a few minutes this failed due to ld: symmisc.o: wrong machine type Running make clean make seemed to recover. Either `make' should clean up old files or the README file should be updated saying that 'make clean' should be issued between makes of gdb on different machines. Another, minnor problem is that it was not clear to me that the `sparc' option to config.gdb was just another name for `sun4os3'. The option should be changed to `sun3os3'. It seems that the installation of gdb compiles with the -g option. I should think that it would be better to compile with the -O option (at least after a trial test period). Also, running strip on gdb will reduce the size. Is there a way to do this without modifying the makefile? Geoff Alexander