Re: How to fix solib path name?

[Aleksandar Ristovski <aristovski@qnx.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 16:14:41, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
>> Pedro Alves wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 15:45:23, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
>>>> See solib_find comment in "solib.c" for figuring out how it 
>>>> looks for it.
>>>>
>>>> You can provide "find_and_open_solib" in your target_ops for 
>>>> customizing it (in case you want to provide "default" search 
>>>> algorithm when built-in solib-search-path mechanism fails to 
>>>> find it).
>>> Please don't go there, it's not really needed.
>>>
>> I thought the mechanism worked quite nicely. For us at least.
>>
>> If solib-search-path is not set, we end up searching solibs 
>> using find_and_open_solib.
>>
>> When solib-search-path is set, then it takes precedence and 
>> only if solib is not found there, we fallback to 
>> find_and_open_solib.
>>
>> What would you do differently?
> 
> Use "(gdb) set sysroot".
> 

That is for absolute paths. For relative paths 
find_and_open_solib is still a way to go IMHO - if you 
disagree I would like to hear your rationale.


Thanks,

Aleksandar