From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 63149 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2016 15:24:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 63138 invoked by uid 89); 12 Feb 2016 15:24:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:24:30 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EECE78E67A; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u1CFORub004368; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:24:27 -0500 Message-ID: <56BDF92B.50107@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:24:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Benson , Luis Machado CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remote debugging without a binary (regression) References: <1455200365-5270-1-git-send-email-lgustavo@codesourcery.com> <20160211163510.GA21352@blade.nx> <56BCBF8F.8040601@codesourcery.com> <20160212103144.GB12352@blade.nx> In-Reply-To: <20160212103144.GB12352@blade.nx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00412.txt.bz2 On 02/12/2016 10:31 AM, Gary Benson wrote: > FWIW I tried this (both on the same machine): > > gdbserver :9999 /bin/ls > gdb -q -ex "set sysroot /whatever" -ex "target remote :9999" > > and got this: > > Reading symbols from /bin/ls...(no debugging symbols found)...done. > > which I think is an error: the sysroot is being ignored. I agree. If you tell gdb about a sysroot, then I can't think why you'd want it to try opening an absolute filename on the host, outside the sysroot. (caching and buildid matching aside) Thanks, Pedro Alves