GdbServer: is it compiled?

GdbServer: is it compiled?

[Geert Vancompernolle]

Hi,

When compiling Insight for a certain host and target, is gdbserver also 
compiled?  I've seen the sources are there, but I don't know if the 
application is compiled, because I can't find it.

If not, can this be done?

If this can be done, how?  I would like to have a matching gdb - 
gdbserver, since I don't have that match for the moment (see previous 
thread titled "Taking other sources to compile gdb for the target" here 
<http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-05/msg00096.html>)


Beware:  the gdbserver should be cross compiled to run on a mips2_fp_le 
embedded Linux platform, not on a PC or "normal" Linux distro...

-- 
Best rgds,

-- Geert

Re: GdbServer: is it compiled?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:34:44PM +0200, Geert Vancompernolle wrote:
> When compiling Insight for a certain host and target, is gdbserver also  
> compiled?  I've seen the sources are there, but I don't know if the  
> application is compiled, because I can't find it.

No, if you are building a cross debugger, then it is a program to run
on your host.  You want gdbserver to run on your target, so it needs
different configuration options.  Configure it separately; see
gdb/gdbserver/README for details.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Re: GdbServer: is it compiled?

[Michael Snyder]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:40 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:34:44PM +0200, Geert Vancompernolle wrote:
> > When compiling Insight for a certain host and target, is gdbserver also  
> > compiled?  I've seen the sources are there, but I don't know if the  
> > application is compiled, because I can't find it.
> 
> No, if you are building a cross debugger, then it is a program to run
> on your host.  You want gdbserver to run on your target, so it needs
> different configuration options.  Configure it separately; see
> gdb/gdbserver/README for details.

That's not quite right, I think...

Whether to build gdbserver is configured by gdb/configure.tgt, 
depending on which target is chosen.  It gets added to the
build_subdirs in the makefile.

Or so I think...

Re: GdbServer: is it compiled?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:24:48AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Whether to build gdbserver is configured by gdb/configure.tgt, 
> depending on which target is chosen.  It gets added to the
> build_subdirs in the makefile.

Only for native builds of GDB.  If you're building a cross-GDB it will
never be built automatically, since the configure script won't go
looking for a cross-compiler.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery