From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
To: kewarken@qnx.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: solib search algorithm for cross-gdb
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17137.9742.611727.106884@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F12318.4040307@qnx.com>
>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com> writes:
Kris> Paul Koning wrote:
>> When I said "cross-gdb" I was thinking about host != target -- for
>> example an Intel host and a MIPS target. Using the literal
>> library path can't possibly be right in that case.
>>
>> Daniel suggests some other cases that are more dynamic -- host ==
>> target but we're doing remote debugging.
>>
>> Right now we have TARGET_SO_FIND_AND_OPEN_SOLIB as a way for the
>> target specific code to add another way to find libraries, but we
>> don't have any way for any component to subtract ways, which is
>> what I need here.
>>
Kris> Setting solib-absolute-prefix is a the way to subtract
Kris> searching from the root since it either searches <abspath> or
Kris> <solib-abs-pref>/<abspath>, not both. Don't know if it's
Kris> practical for you but we explicitly set solib-absolute-prefix
Kris> in our init functions so we never have to worry about
Kris> accidentally getting /usr/lib/somelib.so instead of
Kris> $SDK_ROOT/usr/lib/somelib.so.
I can't easily do that because each of our developers builds test
builds in his own sandbox, so there is no single right value. Also,
it isn't really an issue of one specific target system, but rather the
fact that a null solib-absolute-prefix is just not meaningful if the
host and target architectures are different. (And by "architectures"
I don't mean mips32 vs. mips64, I mean intel vs. mips or linux
vs. netbsd.)
So the point is that the alternative currently used when
solib-absolute-prefix is null is sensible only in native runs, not
cross-debug. (And, debatably, for native ones not even all the time,
e.g., "target remote".) It's that alternative I want to get rid of,
conditionally.
paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-03 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 13:38 Paul Koning
2005-08-03 17:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-08-03 18:14 ` Kris Warkentin
2005-08-03 19:15 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-08-03 19:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-08-03 19:29 ` Paul Koning
2005-08-03 20:00 ` Kris Warkentin
2005-08-03 20:16 ` Paul Koning [this message]
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