Re: Remote debuggind with gdb 5.3

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

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 dot Iovescu at mail dot uh dot 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 dot Iovescu at mail dot uh dot 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 at 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
> >
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer