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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2015-04-06 12:35:18 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2015-04-06 12:35:18 +0100
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Fallback to stub-termcap.c on all hosts
Currently building gdb is impossible without an installed termcap or curses library. But, GDB already has a very minimal termcap in the tree to handle this situation for Windows -- gdb/stub-termcap.c. This patch makes that the fallback for all hosts. Testing this on GNU/Linux (by simply hacking away the termcap/curses detection in gdb/configure.ac), we trip on: ../readline/libreadline.a(terminal.o): In function `_rl_init_terminal_io': /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/readline/terminal.c:527: undefined reference to `PC' /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/readline/terminal.c:528: undefined reference to `BC' /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/readline/terminal.c:529: undefined reference to `UP' /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/readline/terminal.c:538: undefined reference to `PC' /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/readline/terminal.c:539: undefined reference to `BC' /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/readline/terminal.c:540: undefined reference to `UP' These are globals that are normally defined by termcap (or ncurses' termcap emulation). Now, we could just define replacements in stub-termcap.c, but readline/terminal.c (at least the copy in our tree) has this: #if !defined (__linux__) && !defined (NCURSES_VERSION) # if defined (__EMX__) || defined (NEED_EXTERN_PC) extern # endif /* __EMX__ || NEED_EXTERN_PC */ char PC, *BC, *UP; #endif /* !__linux__ && !NCURSES_VERSION */ which can result in readline defining the globals too. That will usually work out in C, given that "-fcommon" is usually the default for C compilers, but that won't work for C++, or C with -fno-common (link fails with "multiple definition" errors)... Mirroring those #ifdef conditions in the stub termcap screams "brittle" to me -- I can see them changing in latter readline versions. Work around that by simply using __attribute__((weak)). Windows/PE/COFF's do support weak, but not on gcc 3.4 based toolchains (4.8.x does work). Given the file never needed the variables while it was Windows-only, just continue not defining them there. All other supported hosts should support this. gdb/ChangeLog: 2015-04-06 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de> * configure.ac: Remove the mingw32-specific stub-termcap.o fallback, and instead fallback to the stub termcap on all hosts. * configure: Regenerate. * stub-termcap.c [!__MINGW32__] (PC, BC, UP): Define as weak symbols.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/stub-termcap.c')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/stub-termcap.c b/gdb/stub-termcap.c
index 5897d89..722929f 100644
--- a/gdb/stub-termcap.c
+++ b/gdb/stub-termcap.c
@@ -40,9 +40,28 @@ extern char *tgoto (const char *cap, int col, int row);
}
#endif
+/* These globals below are global termcap variables that readline
+ references.
+
+ Actually, depending on preprocessor conditions that we don't want
+ to mirror here (as they may change depending on readline versions),
+ readline may define these globals as well, relying on the linker
+ merging them if needed (-fcommon). That doesn't work with
+ -fno-common or C++, so instead we define the symbols as weak.
+ Don't do this on Windows though, as MinGW gcc 3.4.2 doesn't support
+ weak (later versions, e.g., 4.8, do support it). Given this stub
+ file originally was Windows only, and we only needed this when we
+ made it work on other hosts, it should be OK. */
+#ifndef __MINGW32__
+char PC __attribute__((weak));
+char *BC __attribute__((weak));
+char *UP __attribute__((weak));
+#endif
+
/* Each of the files below is a minimal implementation of the standard
termcap function with the same name, suitable for use in a Windows
- console window. */
+ console window, or when a real termcap/curses library isn't
+ available. */
int
tgetent (char *buffer, char *termtype)