Re: Exhaustive simulator testing

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:32:50AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> Many of the src/sim simulators make direct reference to GDB routines.
> For instance, sim/ppc/main.c and sim/ppc/sim_calls.c both include
> gdb/callback.h and gdb/remote-sim.h.  If the GDB sources are not in
> the tree these files will obviously not compile.  My experience is
> that if GDB is in the tree but hasn't been configured, they still
> won't compile (bombs out looking for gdb/config.h or similar).

Yes.  When building a combined tree for cross-targets, I have to configure
all of it, then delete gdb/Makefile -- and nothing else -- to avoid building
a debugger.


Phil

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