I stumbled on this snippet in nat/gdb_ptrace.h:
/* Some systems, in particular DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, Compaq Tru64
or whatever it's called these days, don't provide a prototype for
ptrace. Provide one to silence compiler warnings. */
#ifndef HAVE_DECL_PTRACE
extern PTRACE_TYPE_RET ptrace();
#endif
I believe this is unnecessary today and should be removed. First, the
comment only mentions OSes we don't support (and to be honest, I had
never even heard of).
But most importantly, in C++, a declaration with empty parenthesis
declares a function that accepts no arguments, unlike in C. So if this
declaration was really used, GDB wouldn't build, since all ptrace call
sites pass some arguments. Since we haven't heard anything about this
causing some build failures since we have transitioned to C++, I
conclude that it's not used.
This patch removes it as well as the corresponding configure check.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ptrace.m4: Don't check for ptrace declaration.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* nat/gdb_ptrace.h: Don't declare ptrace if HAVE_DECL_PTRACE is
not defined.
gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog:
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
gdbserver uses gdb's alloc.c, and this in turn can include headers
from intl via gdbsupport/gdb_locale.h. This can cause build failures
in some situations, for example if you build gdb and gdbserver on
mingw.
This patch restores the gdbsupport dependency on intl, and changes
gdbserver to use ZW_GNU_GETTEXT_SISTER_DIR. This fixes this build
problem.
ChangeLog
2020-03-12 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* Makefile.in: Rebuild.
* Makefile.def (gdbsupport): Depend on intl.
gdbserver/ChangeLog
2020-03-12 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* config.in, configure: Rebuild.
* configure.ac: Call ZW_GNU_GETTEXT_SISTER_DIR.
* acinclude.m4: Include gettext-sister.m4.
* Makefile.in (top_builddir, INTL, INTL_DEPS, INTL_CFLAGS): New
variables.
(INCLUDE_CFLAGS): Add INTL_CFLAGS.
(gdbserver$(EXEEXT), gdbreplay$(EXEEXT)): Use INTL_DEPS, INTL.
This patch moves gdbserver to the top level.
This patch is as close to a pure move as possible -- gdbserver still
builds its own variant of gnulib and gdbsupport. Changing this will
be done in a separate patch.
[v2] Note that, per Simon's review comment, this patch changes the
tree so that gdbserver is not built for or1k or score. This makes
sense, because there is apparently not actually a gdbserver port here.
[v3] This version of the patch also splits out some configury into a
new file, gdbserver/configure.host, so that the top-level configure
script can simply rely on it in order to decide whether gdbserver
should be built.
[v4] This version adds documentation and removes some unnecessary
top-level dependencies.
[v5] Update docs to mention "make all-gdbserver" and change how
top-level configure decides whether to build gdbserver, switching to a
single, shared script.
Tested by the buildbot.
ChangeLog
2020-02-07 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* src-release.sh (GDB_SUPPORT_DIRS): Add gdbserver.
* gdbserver: New directory, moved from gdb/gdbserver.
* configure.ac (host_tools): Add gdbserver.
Only build gdbserver on certain systems.
* Makefile.in, configure: Rebuild.
* Makefile.def (host_modules, dependencies): Add gdbserver.
* MAINTAINERS: Add gdbserver.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-02-07 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* README: Update gdbserver documentation.
* gdbserver: Move to top level.
* configure.tgt (build_gdbserver): Remove.
* configure.ac: Remove --enable-gdbserver.
* configure: Rebuild.
* Makefile.in (distclean): Don't mention gdbserver.
Change-Id: I826b7565b54604711dc7a11edea0499cd51ff39e
Simon Marchi
Tom Tromey