Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] gdb: Upgrade 17.2 -> 18.1

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2026-09-29 at 17:44 +0100, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-09-29 at 17:56 +0200, Jaipaul Cheernam via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > 
> > On 2026-09-29 14:08, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2026-09-29 at 11:35 +0200, Jaipaul Cheernam via
> > > lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > > > NEWS:
> > > > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gdb/NEWS;hb=gdb-18.1-release
> > > > 
> > > > - Refresh existing patches
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>
> > > I think this triggered:
> > > 
> > > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/3/builds/4785
> > > 
> > Hi Richard,
> > 
> > I tried different combinations(with musl and without) locally on my
> > machine (ubuntu 24) and no issues found.
> > 
> > Could this is be host contamination or sstate issue ?
> > 
> > Can you retrigger autobuilder again ?
> 
> No, I'm not doing that. A better question is could we look at
> config.log from the failing build. We can and it says:
> 
> configure:29766: gcc  -o conftest -isystem/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include -O2 -pipe     -isystem/srv/pokybuil
> d/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include -I/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-
> x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/include  -L/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib                         -L/srv/p
> okybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/lib                         -Wl,--enable-new-dtags                         -Wl,-rpath-link,/srv
> /pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib                         -Wl,-rpath-link,/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/b
> uild/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/lib                         -Wl,-rpath,/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/
> 18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/lib                         -Wl,-rpath,/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gdb-cross-x86_64/18.1/recipe-sysroot-native/lib                
>          -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/sysroots-uninative/x86_64-linux/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -pthread conftest.c -lncurse
> sw -latomic -lm  >&5
> configure:29766: $? = 0
> configure:29766: ./conftest
> ./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> configure:29766: $? = 127
> 
> which gives at least some hint as to what the issue may be...

https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/shared-failure-data/config.log-gdb

Cheers,

Richard