From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23692 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2004 19:05:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23680 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2004 19:05:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Oct 2004 19:05:43 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEY9W-000531-Pl; Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:05:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:24:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Felix Lee Cc: gdb list Subject: Re: gdbserver, sysroot, prelink Message-ID: <20041004190542.GA19352@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Felix Lee , gdb list References: <20041004173736.1EA97502AB6@stray.canids> <20041004175148.GA16251@nevyn.them.org> <20041004190003.90149502AB6@stray.canids> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041004190003.90149502AB6@stray.canids> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz : > > How does this make --with-sysroot useless? That's exactly what sysroot > > is supposed to do - point it where you keep the exact libraries of the > > machine. I usually point it to an NFS server. > > doesn't that assume you only have one such target machine in your > installation? I have a different sysroot for each target machine. They use NFS to root from the host I run GDB on. Otherwise, I copy the libraries to the target. > maybe setting the default solib-absolute-prefix to something like > '[[please set solib-absolute-prefix]]' would be helpful when > there isn't a sensible default. If there isn't a sensible default for your environment, perhaps you should give a nonexistant directory for --with-sysroot... -- Daniel Jacobowitz