howto build gdb / gdbserver for x86 host with arm-linux target?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Sat Feb 12 02:53:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:34:41AM -0800, Tim Harvey wrote:
> The way I understand it is that I have to use my arm-linux-gdb as my host gdb
> has stubs for the host architecture not the target (right?)

The "stub" in this case is gdbserver - the name's historic.  Your host
GDB is configured for your host architecture, and to use a remote stub
the GDB client has to be configured for the same architecture as the
stub.  So, basically right.

> Thanks for your help!

No problem.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC



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