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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:04:00 -0000
From: SZOKOVACS Robert <szo@ies.hu>
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Subject: meaningful error message in gdbserver
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Hi,

I had a long day fighting with remote debugging, until I found out that my
libpthread and libthread_db versions didn't match. So I created the patch
below that makes gdbserver more verbose when failing, maybe it can save
some time for somebody in the future.

br

Szo

==========================================================================

diff -ruw gdb-6.3.50.20050831-orig/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c gdb-6.3.50.20050831/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c
--- gdb-6.3.50.20050831-orig/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c	2005-08-31 18:12:56.000000000 +0200
+++ gdb-6.3.50.20050831/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c	2005-08-31 18:27:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -351,6 +351,10 @@
       /* No thread library was detected.  */
       return 0;

+    case TD_VERSION:
+      warning ("error initializing thread_db library:\nVersion of libpthread and libthread_db mismatch.");
+      return 0;
+
     case TD_OK:
       /* The thread library was detected.  */