Re: gdbserver, sysroot, prelink

Andrew Cagney
2004-10-05T12:48:10Z

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
>
>>> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>:
>>
>>>> > How does this make --with-sysroot useless? That's exactly what sysroot
>>>> > is supposed to do - point it where you keep the exact libraries of the
>>>> > machine. I usually point it to an NFS server.

Is there a command to change this (testcase, doco)? I guess the lack of
a command is the reason for not having it always enabled.

(Hmm, I wonder, did GDB check that the shlibs it was loading were
compatible with the main executable?)

Andrew

>>> doesn't that assume you only have one such target machine in your
>>> installation?
>
>
> I have a different sysroot for each target machine. They use NFS to
> root from the host I run GDB on. Otherwise, I copy the libraries to
> the target.
>
>
>>> maybe setting the default solib-absolute-prefix to something like
>>> '[[please set solib-absolute-prefix]]' would be helpful when
>>> there isn't a sensible default.
>
>
> If there isn't a sensible default for your environment, perhaps you
> should give a nonexistant directory for --with-sysroot...
>
> -- Daniel Jacobowitz