Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] GDB build failure on Open Solaris

[Volker Grabsch]

Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
> GDB is failing on Open Solaris with what seems to be a problem with
> either sh or sed. The sed version is GNU sed version 4.1.5, which is
> about 4 years old, but in the sed timescale probably recent enough. sh
> is bash 3.2.25.
> 
> The log is attached, and I don't know where to start with investigating this.
> 
> Any pointers appreciated.

This is a problem with the shell. The "gdb/regformats/regdat.sh" shell
script uses a quite complicated quoting construct:

    echo "const char *expedite_regs_${name}[] = { \"`echo ${expedite} | sed 
's/,/", "/g'`\", 0 };"

Here, the "sed" command should be called with the following argument:

    sed 's/,/", "/g'

However, for some strange reason it gets a bigger argument, probably
something like this:

    sed 's/,/", "/g'`\", 0 };...

And so it complains. It seems to me that the /bin/sh (Bash?) of
OpenSolaris is buggy.


Do you think there is a quick and clean solution? Probably a
portability patch? Or can we demand to install some more recent
"Bash" package in the OpenSolaris requirements section?

Otherwise, I'd remove gdb temporarily for the release.


Greets,

    Volker

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