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Re: shared library symbols not loaded automatically
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
Daniel> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:12:56PM +0530, Kunal Parmar wrote:
>> Hi Daniel, I am not clear how setting solib-absolute-prefix will
>> solve this problem. The manual says that it is used as a prefix
>> for searching the libraries at runtime. When I use the command
>> sharedlibrary at the gdb prompt, the libraries are correctly
>> loaded. Doesn't this mean that I do not need to set the
>> solib-absolute-prefix??
Daniel> Not if they're the wrong libraries.
Daniel> You may be loading literally "/lib/libc.so.6" on your host -
Daniel> an i386 library.
It would be a good feature if GDB didn't do that for crossbuilds,
because it can't possibly be correct...
paul