From: Paul Koning <Paul_Koning@dell.com>
To: marc.khouzam@ericsson.com
Cc: drow@false.org, eliz@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: RE: Disabling sysroot
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18504.4177.281333.464717@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA0429117F@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se>
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> writes:
>> > It would be even nicer to have a way to 'turn off' sysroot > for
>> this case. Something like "unset sysroot". I'm not > sure if
>> "unset" is something that GDB supports.
>>
>> It is, but unsetting sysroot does not mean what you want. Without
>> a sysroot, libraries are searched for in the root filesystem on
>> the host. You want to actually disable searching by full path;
>> gdb has no option for that.
Marc> From what I understand, it would be nice if unset sysroot
Marc> disabled sysrtoot, while an explicit set sysrtoot "/" be used
Marc> to search from the root. But, for the sake of backwards
Marc> compatibility, this should probably be left alone and /dev/null
Marc> used for sysrtoot to disable it.
There should be a user-friendly way to disable sysroot, and that
should be on by default in a cross-gdb.
paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA04291110@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se>
[not found] ` <200805141603.35204.pedro@codesourcery.com>
2008-06-04 13:34 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-06-04 15:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-04 15:20 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-06-04 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-05 15:08 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-06-05 15:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-05 16:10 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-06-05 16:12 ` Paul Koning [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=18504.4177.281333.464717@gargle.gargle.HOWL \
--to=paul_koning@dell.com \
--cc=drow@false.org \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=gdb@sourceware.org \
--cc=marc.khouzam@ericsson.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox