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voder!wlbr!WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM!amc@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Allen M. Cohen) writes:

>After installing the ISC patch to gdb 4.6, I still
>can't get gdb to read a core file:
>e.g.: gdb a.out core
>      core is not a core dump: File format not recognized

>I did ./configure i386-isc-sysv32  (I'm using ISC 3.0)

>Notes:
>1) I added -D_XOPEN_SOURCE and -posix to CFLAGS
>1a) Also added -lcposix to CC loading command.
>2) in gdb/Makefile, ./munch invokes "head", which we don't have!
>   We have tail, but not head.
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I don't know why you added -D_XOPEN_SOURCE and -posix to CFLAGS,
-posix is already in my definition of CC. I have found it necessary to
be careful about these flags as they change the header files in
siginificant ways.

You will find 'head' in GNU file utils.  I am using version 1.4.

This is the make command I used:

$ /bin/make 'CC=gcc -posix -DISC -DTRAD_CORE -DHAVE_UNISTD_H -DHAVE_MEM_BREAKPOINT' HDEPFILES=trad-core.o

My understanding is that trad-core.c in bfd understands the core files
so the -DTRAD_CORE and HDEPFILES=trad-core.o bits are important.  If
they are not getting through to your make then you are in trouble.

Hope this helps.
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