Re: Why does solib_open do what it does?

Michael Snyder
2003-06-18T20:10:24Z

Kris Warkentin wrote:
>msnyder:
>>Kris Warkentin wrote:

>>I rather think that $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be native-only.
>>But come to think of it, do remote targets even have environment
>>variables?
>
>>And if so -- do they inherit them from gdb / the host? If there's a
>>gdbserver-type situation, and if the server is able to provide the true
>>environment variables from the target, then yes, we should use these.
>>But I don't recall any gdbserver ever offering that functionality.
>
> Our pdebug remote protocol allows us to 'set qnxinheritenv true/false'.
> This determines whether gdb will send it's environment to the target or
> whether the target will inherit from the pdebug server.

Cool, and I presume you can then read them back.
In that case, (assuming the child inherits from the target side server),
wouldn't you want LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be searched? If the linker-loader
picks up libc from one place, but gdb picks it up from someplace else,
you're hosed.