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Re: gdbserver on PowerPC Issues
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:29:54PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
> Daniel> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:22:56PM -0500, Paul Mundt wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:39, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > The
> >> problem is presumably that you haven't told GDB where to look for
> >> > the dynamic linker and shared libraries. Try using 'set >
> >> solib-absolute-prefix' before you 'target remote'.
> >> >
> >> Ah! This was indeed the problem. Though oddly enough, adjusting
> >> solib-absolute-prefix didn't make the problem go away. I had to
> >> set it to /dev/null and then set solib-search-patch to the proper
> >> directory before the issue would fix itself.
> >>
> >> There was some CRIS documentation hinting that that would only be
> >> necessary if the end of the path wasn't /lib, but in this case it
> >> was.
>
> Daniel> Mind setting solib-absolute-prefix and stracing GDB to see
> Daniel> what it was opening, then? It really should work.
>
> Depends on whether the library names are given in the image with a
> leading slash or not. If yes, then the absolute prefix setting
> matters; if not, the search path.
Right, but Paul's using a Linux target; both of the Linux dynamic
loaders I'm familiar with set full paths in the linker map.
Fortunately, problem solved now!
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer