Re: Finding ld.so dynamic loader

[Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:

>> Can someone explain to me how gdb is supposed to find the correct
>> ld.so or why I'm looking at this incorrectly?
> 
> Oh that's an easy one.  GDB got corrupted by the embedded crowd who
> can't settle on a single way to build and install a cross toolchain.

I'll plead nolo contendere.  All the variations in building a cross
toolchain are as confusing to toolchain developers as debugger developers.

> GDB tries to please them all, and still tries to cover the case of a
> native debugger too.

It still seems that searching the host file system should be the
last choice, not the first.  This makes setting the solib search path or
using a target-dependent search function moot, unless the user also
sets the solib search prefix to a bogus value.

> Oh, by the way, you're looking at an old GDB version; we also have
> GDB_SYSROOT now.

Yes, I'm using gdb-6.5.


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