Problems building GDB 5.0 on AIX 4.3.3

[Adam Kerrison]

Hello

I've recently downloaded and configured gdb 5.0 to build on our
AIX 4.3.3 system.

The make starts of then falls over in infptrace.c:

"/usr/include/sys/ptrace.h", line 279,9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.

The problem appears to some clash in the definitions of PT_ATTACH
and PTRACE_ATTACH. The AIX system header contains an enum to
provide some Linux compatability - could this be the problem (is
configure detecting some Linux-ism's?)

My workaround was to hack infptrace.c and move the include of
<sys/ptrace.h> to the start of the file so I suspect the problem
lies in one of the gdb headers included before <sys/ptrace.h>
(sorry, I didn't do much more investigation!)

I also had the same problem with rs6000-nat.c - again, moving the
header allowed compilation to proceed.

However, when I try to use the built gdb I get:

ptrace ldinfo: Not enough space

Obviously, this could be a problem on our AIX system (a lack of
memory I suspect but the system appears to have plenty of memory
free). I'm am concerned that my hacky fix may have broken gdb
(esp. since I worked around a ptrace issue and thats what appears
to be failing)

Has gdb been built and run on AIX 4.3.3 before?

Adam K

PS> I'm using the IBM VA C compiler 5.0 not GCC :-(
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