How to define shared libray symbol file for GDB in cross debug en vironment?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Wed Feb 12 15:00:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:59:16PM +0800, Yu kenny-a18604 wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> Here I have trouble in using GDB.
> 
> I am in a cross-compiler environment. Host is x86 PC and target is xscale-arm. I've been succeeding in connect arm-gdbserver from host PC. Also I loaded symbol file of my binary - elf.out. But now the trouble is:
> 
> There is some shared libraies like libmydb.so I want to load it in host as a symbol file. GDB 'sharedlibrary' command just search this shared-symbol-file in a fixed path - /usr/lib. I could not copy libmydb.so to /usr/lib cause there is a x86 shared library there with the same name. I can't change it now.
> 
> So my question is how to direct gdb-host to load shared library symbol file in specific path, for example, /myhome/target(/libmydb.so)?

Look at "set solib-absolute-prefix" and "set solib-search-path".

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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