Re: GDB honouring RPATH in binaries.

Kevin Buettner
2003-02-20T19:55:27Z

On Feb 20, 2:41pm, Kris Warkentin wrote:

> > With regard to the remote case, I would have thought that simply
> > prepending solib-absolute-prefix would give the correct results.
>
> Well, let's say I upload my program and libs to /tmp on the remote with the
> binary's RPATH set to /tmp. I'm debugging on Cygwin in /home/kewarken/test.
> My solib-absolute-prefix and solib-search-path are based in
> c:\QNXsdk\target\qnx6 (where all the libs are stored). This is why I'm not
> convinced that there's any nice way to use RPATH in the remote case.

I see what you mean. Unless you're using an NFS mount, it's unlikely
for the sys-root on the host to contain the stuff you've just uploaded
to /tmp.

In this case, I think it would make sense to use solib-search-path
to find the libraries that you've uploaded to /tmp.

Kevin