From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8059 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2003 22:33:10 -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 8051 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 22:33:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mclean.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 22:33:10 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1ARfYT-0003jj-00; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:33:09 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id AD1B94B35A; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:33:13 -0500 (EST) To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, kevinb@redhat.com, kewarken@qnx.com Subject: Re: interesting solib-absolute-prefix problem Message-Id: <20031203223313.AD1B94B35A@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:33:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 Ummm, hit me with a clue-stick if I am missing the point, but it looks like Kris's desire is to have solib-absolute-prefix="" be a meaningful value, but gdb already uses that for something else. And we don't want to get those semantics by accident. Can you kludge it by setting solib-absolute-prefix="/."? I agree with Kevin, I don't like kludges where gdb says "might as well try this". The risk is that it will bogusly succeed on some other system. Michael C