Re: Remote debuggind with gdb 5.3

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

Sorry, can't help you with that; you'll have to talk to whoever you got
this development environment from.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:50:44AM -0500, Magdalena.Iovescu@mail.uh.edu wrote:
> How do I make sure of that? Just by building my own filesystem? 
> 
> I tried to copy the library files fom my host to the target file system, and the system crashes. When I try to bring it up again, I get this:
> 
>      VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
>      Freeing init memory: 76K
>      init: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared 
>      object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
>      Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Magdalena
> 
> >Depends on how you work.  I recommend using the exact same headers and
> >libraries on host and target; otherwise really strange things can
> >happen.
> >
> >On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:17:00PM -0500, Magdalena.Iovescu@mail.uh.edu wrote:
> >> Thanks for answering.
> >> I'm using an ARM filesystem from Wearable group, and that doesn't have this file anywhere. I have them though on my host, in my toolchain directory (/opt/arm-linux/arm-linux/lib). I tried copying it to the /lib on my target, but then there were other files missing. 
> >> 
> >> Is there a nicer way to get these files on the target filesystem?
> >> 
> >> Sorry for the basic questions, I'm new at embedded Linux.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Magdalena
> >> 
> >> >On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:16:24PM -0500, Magdalena.Iovescu@mail.uh.edu wrote:
> >> >> Hello.
> >> >> 
> >> >> I am trying to setup remote debugging on an ARM platform. I compiled and
> >> >> installed gdb 5.3 on host and target side (following 'the recipe' on
> >> >> www.kegel.com/linux/gdbserver.html). I even applied the --with-solib-absolute-prefix patch, and I still got this error after that:
> >> >> 
> >> >> When I try to start the server on the target, I get this:
> >> >> 
> >> >> [guest@MyHost guest]$gdbserver host:3000 hello
> >> >> gdbserver: error in loading shared libraries: libthread_db.so.1: cannot open
> >> >> shared object file: No such file or directory
> >> >> 
> >> >> Any suggestions on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated.
> >> >
> >> >Exactly what the error message says: find libthread_db.so.1 on your
> >> >target.  You must have an ARM version on your host somewhere if you
> >> >were able to build thread support.
> >> >
> >> >-- 
> >> >Daniel Jacobowitz
> >> >MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> >> >
> >> 
> >
> >-- 
> >Daniel Jacobowitz
> >MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> >
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer