Re: Shared library problems

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:21:13AM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:01:59PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> > > Kevin,
> > >
> > > > Which version of gdb are you using?  Which host and target?
> > >
> > > Acording to the package id I am using 5.0-148. gdb produces the following
> > > output.
> > >
> > > -> gdb -v
> > > GNU gdb 20010316
> > >
> > > This is on Linux running on Intel IA32.
> >
> > Try a more recent version:
> >   http://sources.redhat.com/gdb
> >
> > That one's pretty old.  And we have no idea what your distributor did
> > with the 148 revisions of it...
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> I downloaded the latest source and built the 5.2.1 version but I end up with
> the same symptom.
> 
> i.e. start gdb within the proper environment and try to run the app from there
> I end up with the problem that the app cannot find the shared libraries.
> Displaying LD_LIBRARY_PATH in gdb (show env LD_LIBRARY_PATH) shows that the
> path to the library that cannot be found is on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I assume I know what's going on, then.  Do your shell startup files
include a different setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Right now GDB spawns a copy of your shell to start the debugged
application.  We've been getting a lot of bad noises about this
behavior lately, so it may be reaching the end of its life span...

> 
> However, when I start the app and then attach I can actually see the function
> names and where in the code I am. This is certainly an improvement over the
> earlier version.
> 
> Robert
> 
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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