Re: problem with cross-dev gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:10:19PM +0200, toon.diels@philips.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am porting Linux to a MIPS based embedded system. In order to get a decent cross-dev environment, I have
> cross-compiled gdb5.0 for a pc-linux host and a mipsel-linux target. I connect my gdbserver on target and gdb on the host via
> network link:
> 
> target = 130.145.72.8
> host = 130.145.72.10
> 
> target> gdbserver host:1234 myAppl
> 
> host> mipsel-linux-gdb myAppl
> host>(gdb)target remote 130.145.72.8:1234
> 
> When these components connect, I can only use the "continue" command. Other gdb commands as breakpoint, list etc result
> in segmentation faults. These segmentation faults are reported on the host via gdb. The target gdbserver indicates that it received
> : readchar : GOT EOF. Does anyone have a clue on what I am doing wrong?

You're using gdb 5.0 for MIPS/Linux :)  Don't Do That.  Grab a 5.1
snapshot instead; support for MIPS/Linux was not contributed until
recently.

> When using the gdbserver, do I still need the gdb-stubs
> in the target kernel?

No, you don't need a GDB stub unless you are using kgdb.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer