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Re: Build question


On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:56 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Just to be certain I understand, you're building a gdb that runs on
> your Linux box but that you use to debug something running on Windows?

Yes. Windows CE actually - PDA's, smartphones, etc.

gdbserver runs on them (required only a small tweak), that's what gdb on
Linux talks to.

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 20:31 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> > I am not familiar with this area in depth.  From what you've said it
> > sounds like gdb has some confusion about host paths and target paths.
> 
> The way these macros and the corresponding source fragments in GDB are
> set, they only DTRT for native debugging.

Also right, but it looks like it doesn't take much to make it just work.

Tom wrote :
> Assuming that is correct, then unfortunately for you I think the best
> thing to do would be to separate these concepts and turn the current
> HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM into a target property.

Can you point me in the right direction ?

Thanks,

	Danny
-- 
Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info


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