Re: Why does solib_open do what it does?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-18T19:14:05Z

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:50:45AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > * If available, use target defined search function.
> > * Look in inferior's $PATH.
> > * Look in inferior's $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> 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.

None of the in-tree supported remote targets do. It's not in the
current remote protocol as far as I know.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer