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Re: Disabling sysroot
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:07:59AM -0400, Marc Khouzam wrote:
>
> > > I use /dev/null, which will never be a directory.
> >
> > Is this worth mentioning in the manual?
>
> It would have been helpful for me, so I vote for yes :-)
>
> It would be even nicer to have a way to 'turn off' sysroot
> for this case. Something like "unset sysroot". I'm not
> sure if "unset" is something that GDB supports.
It is, but unsetting sysroot does not mean what you want. Without a
sysroot, libraries are searched for in the root filesystem on the
host. You want to actually disable searching by full path; gdb has no
option for that.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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