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Re: Maybe you can help...
- To: Laura Spoldi <laura at txc dot com>
- Subject: Re: Maybe you can help...
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:06:35 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <353D02A6.406C1928@txc.com>you write:
> However, when moving on to GDB we have hit a
> stumbling block in that the current release of GDB
> (4.16) does not support the MIPS target. When
> trying to build GDB for this target, I get an
> error indicating: "*** BFD does not support target
> mips-mips-none". This is the target type which I
> specified in build GAS without problems. Upon
> further inspection I found that the current
> release of GDB is significantly older than the
> current release of GAS (2.8.1) ... and many of the
> shared files between GDB and GAS have been updated
> in the GAS version which we have.
This is normal version skew.
Your best bet might be to wait a little while.
The latest binutils release is 2.9. gdb-4.17 is in beta test
right now. They ought to be pretty close in terms of shared
code.
Note that you still need to be careful -- bfd interfaces change
rapidly, often without warning/documentation.
jeff