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Re: [patch][rfc] Allow GDB to search for the right libthread_db.so.1
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, teawater at gmail dot com, tromey at redhat dot com, bauerman at br dot ibm dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:20:56 +0300
- Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] Allow GDB to search for the right libthread_db.so.1
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:18:26 -0700
> From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
> Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>, tromey@redhat.com, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>, gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> * NEWS: Mention set/show libthread-db-search-path.
This part is okay.
> doc/ChangeLog
>
> 2009-04-30 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Threads): Document libthread-db-search-path.
This part is also okay.
> + warning (_("Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread"
> + " library, thread debugging will not be available."));
Is thread debugging indeed completely impossible without libthread_db?
If not, perhaps this warning (and the corresponding description in the
manual) should be amended somehow.
Thanks.