egcs 1.1.1 : debug mode support for SGI IRIX5.3

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 22, 1998, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> wrote:

>   In message < 13951.48772.695086.503966@cdfsga.fnal.gov >you write:
>> > Nothing in this area changed between egcs-1.1b and egcs-1.1.1.  Is it
>> > possible you used different configure options when building the two
>> > different versions of the compiler?

>> No, it is not possible. And it already has been confirmed on this list 
>> (by Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>) that debugging info is missing 
>> in the object modules for IRIX5.

> Reread my message.  There is NO way this changed between egcs-1.1b and
> egcs-1.1.1.  I just reread the diffs betweeen egcs-1.1b and egcs-1.1.1 and
> nothing related to debugging on irix has changed.

So did I, and I couldn't find anything either, but the fact is that my
build of egcs 1.1.1 on IRIX 5.2 won't generate debugging information,
and it was built with exactly the same configure flags I used to build
egcs 1.1.  Very weird...

One possibility is that automount may have fooled my install script so
that it thought GNU as was not available, and so it did not pass
--with-gnu-as down to configure.  Another possibility is that it did
pass --with-gnu-as, but it failed to create the links to `as' in the
install and build tree, and so some configure test failed, disabling
debugging.  I'm rebuilding egcs 1.1.1 now, and I'll post the results
no later than when I come back from the holidays.

BTW, Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year for you all!

> I'm not saying you haven't run into a problem, but the same problem should
> have existed in egcs-1.1b.

It doesn't, egcs 1.1 and the latest snapshot generate debugging
information beautifully.

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil