Re: remote target debug problem running

["Thomas Motz" <t.motz@newage-avkseg.com>]

I had the same problem, when I try to start insight over .gdbinit the
"File->Target Settings" target entry is blank.

Which command for .gdbinit does the equivalent of the Target-Settings Menue
in Insight?

I can set the Baudrate and the ComPort but not the target.

A workaround might be the settings in the preference or the history from
Insight.
But every time when  I start insight the target field is empty.

>It prints the error for one of two reasons: you haven't selected a
>target to debug (File->Target Settings..." or it isn't setting the
>target based on the last run (which is a bug).
>

Does anybody know a reason why insight looses the history?

(Insight 6.3, cygwin, Win2K)

Regards
Thomas








>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:02 -0400, Nathaniel Mercure wrote:
>
>> .../gdb/insight --command=~/bin/mips-gdb.ini
>>     cat ~/bin/mips-gdb.ini
>>         set remoteti 10
>>         set heur 0
>>         set remote memory-write-packet-size fixed
>>         set remote memory-write-packet-size 4200
>>         set download-write-size 3584
>>
>>         target remote localhost:2345
>>         load eCos.elf
>>
>> The problem here is that I CAN'T browses any source file.
>
>That's because you've only downloaded the code to your target board. You
>haven't given GDB/Insight an executable to work on. I presume that
>"eCos.elf" was generated by a compiler. I suggest you change your
>startup script to do:
>
>file eCos.elf
>target remote localhost:2345
>load
>
>instead of the last two lines you have. The "file" command is the
>equivalent of Insight's "open": it causes GDB to read in debugging
>information for your executable.
>
>> When I use open/run to select the elf file and run it.  The board
connects
>> to the
>> remote server but doesn't download the code and gives the following
message.
>>
>>     "You cannot do that without a process to debug"
>>     ...
>>
>> In this case I CAN browses the source code ?!
>
>That's because the "open" command does the equivalent of GDB's "file"
>command (the step you were missing before).
>
>It prints the error for one of two reasons: you haven't selected a
>target to debug (File->Target Settings..." or it isn't setting the
>target based on the last run (which is a bug).
>
>Keith