> It appears that there is a discrepancy between glibc 2.0.7-19 as
> shipped with RedHat 5.1 and the current kernel 2.1.124 that prevents
> native gdb from being built. In particular, gdb includes the
> following file because it believes the 386 has hardware watchpoints:
>
> <sys/debugreg.h>
>
> /usr/include/sys/debugreg.h has:
>
> #include <linux/debugreg.h>
>
> There is no file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/debugreg.h, but there is
> a version in /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 (ie <asm/debugreg.h>).
> It looks like the change was made in 2.1.113.
To compile gdb 4.17 together with glibc 2.0.96 and kernel 2.1.123 for i386
I use this little q+d patch to gdb (should work with your versions too):
--- gdb/i386v-nat.c Thu Jan 4 21:07:50 1996
+++ gdb/i386v-nat.c Tue Aug 25 17:41:34 1998
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
#include <fcntl.h>
#ifdef TARGET_HAS_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS
-#include <sys/debugreg.h>
+#include <asm/debugreg.h>
#endif
#include <sys/file.h>
--- gdb/main.c Sat Apr 13 06:51:36 1996
+++ gdb/main.c Mon Aug 31 18:58:05 1998
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@
register int i;
long time_at_startup = get_run_time ();
+
+ (void) calloc(1,1);
START_PROGRESS (argv[0], 0);
--- gdb/config/i386/nm-linux.h Wed Apr 22 03:23:16 1998
+++ gdb/config/i386/nm-linux.h Thu Sep 24 18:04:01 1998
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
/* GNU/Linux uses the SYSV i386v-nat.c support, but doesn't have <sys/reg.h> */
-#define NO_SYS_REG_H
+// #define NO_SYS_REG_H
/* GNU/Linux supports the 386 hardware debugging registers. */
--- gdb/infptrace.c~ Fri Feb 6 21:56:49 1998
+++ gdb/infptrace.c Thu Sep 24 18:16:00 1998
@@ -34,13 +34,7 @@
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
-#ifndef NO_PTRACE_H
-#ifdef PTRACE_IN_WRONG_PLACE
-#include <ptrace.h>
-#else
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
-#endif
-#endif /* NO_PTRACE_H */
#if !defined (PT_READ_I)
#define PT_READ_I 1 /* Read word from text space */
--- gdb/i386v4-nat.c~ Fri Jun 13 19:30:02 1997
+++ gdb/i386v4-nat.c Thu Sep 24 18:18:50 1998
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
#include "defs.h"
+#ifndef NO_SYS_REG_H
+#include <sys/reg.h>
+#endif
+
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_H
#include <sys/procfs.h>
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Clifford Wolf (CEO and CTO)
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