From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26730 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2003 21:30:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26723 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 21:30:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hub.ott.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 21:30:32 -0000 Received: from smtp.ott.qnx.com (smtp.ott.qnx.com [10.0.2.158]) by hub.ott.qnx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA15495; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:43:13 -0500 Received: from catdog ([10.4.2.2]) by smtp.ott.qnx.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA06639; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:30:32 -0500 Message-ID: <06d701c3b9e4$d274d520$0202040a@catdog> From: "Kris Warkentin" To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" Cc: "Kevin Buettner" , "Gdb@Sources.Redhat.Com" References: <064801c3b9d6$5de8e5b0$0202040a@catdog> <1031203203529.ZM1946@localhost.localdomain> <06c101c3b9e3$5cd789d0$0202040a@catdog> <20031203212628.GA2649@nevyn.them.org> Subject: Re: interesting solib-absolute-prefix problem Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:30:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 > > to have a pretty seriously misconfigured system for that to happen, > > especially since this last ditch check happens after all other search paths > > are used. > > For your users, since you autoset solib-absolute-prefix, yes you'd have > to have a pretty seriously misconfigured system. For my users (at > MontaVista), the same thing, since we do something similar for cross > debugging. For the average person who rolls a toolchain themselves, > however, this is an extremely common problem. I'm thinking I might be able to cheat in our backend to work around this. It's a bit of a nuisance since it seems to be popping up all over. I wish I could just avoid initializing solib-abs-pref in the self hosted case. Grr...stupid OS guys. ;-) Kris