Using DDD/GDB debugger - video presentation

Hallo Constantine, I am trying to debug segmentation faults from my user space app and after compileing the source with -g have now 3 boards that have dumped core and waiting to be analysed but I am struggling to get the gdb installed.  I also have seen the presentation but they do not go through the process of installing tools so I  need some help as the guide "http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Debugging_a_Linux_Application_with_MontaVista_5.0" gets me to a dead end where I have to "make && make install".  I am running ubuntu on the host and have tried to set up gdb 6.6 as per the guide but not even using sudo got me through the problems. After doing a second time I get the following toward the end of the output:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.././bfd -I. -I. -I.././bfd -I.././bfd/../include -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -c elf32-arm.c -o elf32-arm.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
elf32-arm.c: In function 'find_thumb_glue':
elf32-arm.c:2452: error: ignoring return value of 'asprintf', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
elf32-arm.c: In function 'find_arm_glue':
elf32-arm.c:2485: error: ignoring return value of 'asprintf', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
make[4]: *** [elf32-arm.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/gvi/workdir/filesys/gdb-6.6/bfd'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gvi/workdir/filesys/gdb-6.6/bfd'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gvi/workdir/filesys/gdb-6.6/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gvi/workdir/filesys/gdb-6.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks, Jinh T.

I've used precompiled gdb.

You can try to compile without -Werror = Make all warnings into errors.

I am not sure where to change this configuration: is it in gdb-6.6 directory or in the gdb directory in configure.sh file?

How and where do I get a precompiled gdb?  Maybe this does not give me hassles like this?  I am using dvsdk_2_10_01_18 with mv5 on evmdm365.

Thanks, Jinh T.

Figured it out: had to add "--disable-werror" to parameters where ./configure ..... script was called.  May I ever become a linux hacker.

Thanks, Jinh T.

no hacker yet, I reached make[3] and now it complains that it could not read symbols: File in wrong format.  Any ideas how to fix this or where to get those pre-built binaries?

Thanks, Jinh T.

Now I am becoming a hacker.  One hack to TI for using gdb-6.6 in thir wiki that doesn't work.  I downloaded gdb-7.1 (was afraid of the latest 7.2) and got the debugger working.  No of to hack my segmentation fault.  Thanks, Jinh T.

Hi Constantine, just check the links you give as useful info, they do not all work. Thanks, Jinh T.

Where is the problem?

If I select DDD Manual I get to a broken page.  Could it be my browser settings?

Jinh said:

If I select DDD Manual I get to a broken page.