From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10176 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2010 15:15:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 10162 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Oct 2010 15:15:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nx.neverkill.us (HELO nx.neverkill.us) (193.34.68.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:15:37 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (srv.neverkill.us [10.10.10.1]) by nx.neverkill.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC79231366; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:15:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: gdb darwin target on Linux host? From: Peter Steiner To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Nathan Froyd , Tristan Gingold In-Reply-To: <20101020150949.4841131366@nx.neverkill.us> References: <20101020135306.9C60531366@nx.neverkill.us> <201010201550.26450.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20101020145245.GW2806@nightcrawler> <20101020150949.4841131366@nx.neverkill.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:15:00 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20101020151529.DC79231366@nx.neverkill.us> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00083.txt.bz2 made a cross-check o a native darwin box, and I get the "not recognized" error too: root# gdb/gdb /bin/ls GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin10.0.0". For bug reporting instructions, please see: ... "/bin/ls": not in executable format: File format not recognized ^^^^^^^ So, I assume your packaged libbfd cannot handle these binaries at all? (from your gdb-7.2.tar.bz2)