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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:51:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Build question
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> From: Danny Backx <danny.backx@scarlet.be>
> Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:05:00 +0200
> 
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 20:31 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> > > I am not familiar with this area in depth.  From what you've said it
> > > sounds like gdb has some confusion about host paths and target paths.
> > 
> > The way these macros and the corresponding source fragments in GDB are
> > set, they only DTRT for native debugging.
> 
> Also right, but it looks like it doesn't take much to make it just work.

I think they need to be converted to run-time tests instead.  For
that, we would probably need some kind of primitive that returns the
filesystem type of the target, what the macros do now at compile-time.