Re: [RFA 4/4 take 2] Improved linker-debugger interface

[Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>]

Hi Jan,

Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> solib-svr4.c is current not used by with gdbsrver and its recent
> linux_qxfer_libraries_svr4.
> 
> Your testcases is skipped if [is_remote target], with the current
> general goal to unify linux-nat with gdbserver and drop linux-nat
> afterwards I do not think we should accept more patches increasing
> the linux-nat vs. gdbserver gap.  The testcase should be
> specifically compatible with gdbserver.
> 
> To give the background: solib-svr4.c is more general and it is kept
> for all possible corner cases, it also supports more OSes than just
> GNU/Linux.  Compared to it linux-low.c can be easier, this is why it
> is reimplemented and not shared with solib-svr4.c (it could be
> shared more but it is not).  Therefore maybe your extensions on top
> of it all are not feasible for gdb/common/ but they should be at
> least reimplemented also for linux-low.c

How do I configure/build/test gdb so that it is using linux-low.c?
I've updated the tests to work with gdbserver, but with my current
setup solib-svr4.c is being used, so all the tests are passing.

Thanks,
Gary

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