Re: [PATCH] Remote debugging without a binary (regression)

Pedro Alves
2016-02-12T15:24:32Z

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