Missing thread support..

[Rob Kramer <robk@starhub.net.sg>]

Hi,

When trying to find a deadlock in my program, I noticed my gdb (6.4 for 
i586-linux target, cross-compiled by OpenEmbedded) lacks thread support. It 
doesn't detect when a new thread starts, and 'info threads' always returns an 
empty list. Below is the output on i586-linux, versus a proper setup that 
works as expected:

OpenEmbedded distro (gdb 6.4):
--------------------
This GDB was configured as "i586-linux"...Using host libthread_db library 
"/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) r 2
Starting program: /home/root/phello 2
Hello from node 0
Hello from node 1
--------------------


SUSE 10.1 (gdb 6.3):
--------------------
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) r 2
Starting program: /home/rob/phello 2
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1210440016 (LWP 13673)]
[New Thread -1210442848 (LWP 13676)]
Hello from node 0
Hello from node 1
--------------------


I've probably misconfigured or mis-crosscompiled my gdb, but how can I find 
out where I should start looking? Is there a way gdb can tell me why it 
doesn't support thread debugging? Do the config.{log|status} files record 
what might be wrong? (It all seems correct to me)

Glibc is version 2.4, (cross) gcc is 4.1.1, linux 2.6.16.27.

Cheers!

     Rob


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