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Subject: RE: Disabling sysroot
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:10:00 -0000
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From: "Marc Khouzam" <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, <gdb@sourceware.org>
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=20
> > It would be even nicer to have a way to 'turn off' sysroot
> > for this case.  Something like "unset sysroot".  I'm not
> > sure if "unset" is something that GDB supports.
>=20
> It is, but unsetting sysroot does not mean what you want.  Without a
> sysroot, libraries are searched for in the root filesystem on the
> host.  You want to actually disable searching by full path; gdb has no
> option for that.

>From what I understand, it would be nice if unset sysroot disabled sysrtoo=
t,=20
while an explicit set sysrtoot "/" be used to search from the root.
But, for the sake of backwards compatibility, this should probably
be left alone and /dev/null used for sysrtoot to disable it.

Marc