From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15117 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2001 18:24:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15071 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 18:23:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO miranda.axis.se) (193.13.178.2) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 18:23:57 -0000 Received: from ironmaiden.axis.se (ironmaiden.axis.se [10.13.8.120]) by miranda.axis.se (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with ESMTP id fAFINNOr010933; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:23:23 +0100 Received: from axis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ironmaiden.axis.se (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id TAA22491; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:23:23 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: ironmaiden.axis.se: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be axis.com Message-ID: <3BF4081B.D623EF2F@axis.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:49:00 -0000 From: Orjan Friberg Organization: Axis Communications AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Cross solib support; continued References: <3BEAA3A0.586B3046@axis.com> <20011108110955.A12240@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00088.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:24:16PM +0100, Orjan Friberg wrote: > > A couple of more questions regarding support for cross solibs: > > > > That is, I would like a solib that is now searched for in > > solib-absolute-prefix to be searched for in solib-search-path instead. > > Would it make sense to add such a command, like solib-ignore-path? (I'd > > be happy to make it happen.) In effect, it would make all solibs to be > > searched for in solib-search-path by file name only, and > > solib-absolute-path would have no effect. > > Is this really necessary? I just put unstripped libraries in a > directory named lib and set the absolute prefix appropriately. > > Other than that, we should fall back to solib-search-path and the > basename if solib-absolute-path fails for us, IMO. Would that work for > you? Set the absolute-path to /dev/null or so and then add the > fallback code. FYI: I'm not twiddling my thumbs waiting for you or anybody else to implement this for me. I'm willing to dig in and do it, but I'm currently swamped in other things, and will probably be so for a few more days. As they say, "It's on my TODO list." -- Orjan Friberg Axis Communications AB