error during configure/make sequence on GDB-CVS sources at Mac OS X

The following relates to:

Mac OS X 10.5.2, PPC
Xcode 3.0, Apple gcc and tools 4.0.1.

Building, installation, and running of gdb-6.8.50.20080408
works fine.

Building the current CVS (from today, 2008-04-23) stops
during  
configure of src/gdb with the following error:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating .gdbinit
config.status: creating gnulib/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file:
gnulib/Makefile.in
make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

The commands are:

mkdir build
cd build
../gdb-cvs/configure --target=i386-mingw32msvc --disable-nls
--disable- 
tui
make

In fact, gdb-6.8.50.20080408 is the last snapshot that
builds at my  
system. The build of gdb-6.8.50.20080415 and of
gdb-6.8.50.20080423  
does stop at the same stage with the same error like the
current gdb- 
cvs does.

Please do no take this as any kind of a request. I only want
to let  
you know that a commit made in the 7 days from 2008-04-08 to
 
2008-04-15 changed something in the configure-gdb script
which might  
break building of gdb on some systems.

Best regards

Dr. Rolf Jansen

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:53:57PM -0300, Dr. Rolf Jansen
wrote:
> Building the current CVS (from today, 2008-04-23) stops
during configure 
> of src/gdb with the following error:
>
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating .gdbinit
> config.status: creating gnulib/Makefile
> config.status: error: cannot find input file:
gnulib/Makefile.in
> make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Are you building from snapshot tarballs or from a CVS
checkout?  Looks
like CVS, and you didn't get the new gnulib directory.  Use
cvs co
to update, not cvs up.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Am 23.04.2008 um 17:03 schrieb Daniel Jacobowitz:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:53:57PM -0300, Dr. Rolf
Jansen wrote:
>> Building the current CVS (from today, 2008-04-23)
stops during  
>> configure
>> of src/gdb with the following error:
>>
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: creating Makefile
>> config.status: creating .gdbinit
>> config.status: creating gnulib/Makefile
>> config.status: error: cannot find input file:
gnulib/Makefile.in
>> make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Are you building from snapshot tarballs or from a CVS
checkout?  Looks
> like CVS, and you didn't get the new gnulib directory. 
Use cvs co
> to update, not cvs up.

I was talking about both.

Weekly snapshots
   gdb-6.8.50.20080408: build completes successfully
   gdb-6.8.50.20080415: build breaks
   gdb-6.8.50.20080421: build breaks

gdb-cvs updated only today (checked out at the beginning of
April)
   build breaks

gdb-cvs just checked out (after your message)
   build completes successfully

So the issue seems to be resolved. In fact the gnulib
directory was  
missing in my CVS working copy as well as in two of the
snapshots at  
the ftp server of sourceware.org.

I will use co in the future for keeping my CVS working
directory up to  
date.

Best regards

Dr. Rolf Jansen

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:46:51PM -0300, Dr. Rolf Jansen
wrote:
> I was talking about both.
>
> Weekly snapshots
>   gdb-6.8.50.20080408: build completes successfully
>   gdb-6.8.50.20080415: build breaks
>   gdb-6.8.50.20080421: build breaks

Strange.  The Makefile.in is in the snapshot tarballs.  If
it stays
broken, please let us know.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Am 23.04.2008 um 17:55 schrieb Daniel Jacobowitz:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:46:51PM -0300, Dr. Rolf
Jansen wrote:
>> I was talking about both.
>>
>> Weekly snapshots
>>  gdb-6.8.50.20080408: build completes successfully
>>  gdb-6.8.50.20080415: build breaks
>>  gdb-6.8.50.20080421: build breaks
>
> Strange.  The Makefile.in is in the snapshot tarballs. 
If it stays
> broken, please let us know.

 From the sourceware.org ftp server, I downloaded again the
following  
tarballs:

16417037  7 Apr 22:52 gdb-weekly-6.8.50.20080408.tar.bz2
16495321 14 Apr 22:52 gdb-weekly-6.8.50.20080415.tar.bz2
16527380 21 Apr 22:52 gdb-weekly-6.8.50.20080422.tar.bz2
15745329 21 Apr 22:53
gdb-weekly-CVS-6.8.50.20080422.tar.bz2

I unpacked each of them and tried to build again:

  gdb-6.8.50.20080408:     build completes successfully
  gdb-6.8.50.20080415:     build breaks
  gdb-6.8.50.20080422:     build breaks
  gdb-CVS-6.8.50.20080422: build completes successfully


However, the build errors in the given cases were different
than I  
said in my original post:

shortly after configure gdb:

/bin/sh: ../../../gdb-6.8.50.20080415/gdb/../depcomp: No
such file or  
directory
make[5]: *** [dummy.o] Error 127
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-lib] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


/bin/sh: ../../../gdb-6.8.50.20080422/gdb/../depcomp: No
such file or  
directory
make[5]: *** [dummy.o] Error 127
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-lib] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Best regards

Rolf Jansen