Re: [rfc] Retrieve libraries from remote target

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 00:09:53 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 21:28:46 +0200 (CEST)
> > > From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > > 
> > > > > The user interface is simple: if the path specified as "sysroot" starts
> > > > > with the string "remote:", the sysroot location is assumed to be on the
> > > > > remote target.
> > > > 
> > > > What if my _local_ "sysroot" happens to begin with the literal string
> > > > "remote:"?  How can I tell GDB this is not a remote location?
> > > 
> > > You cannot.  Is this limitation a real problem?
> > 
> > If it can happen in real usage, then I think it's a real problem.
> 
> Well, in real usage the sysroot tends to be specified as absolute
> path, so that problem cannot occur.  If you do want to specify the
> sysroot as relative path, there typically are multiple ways to 
> identify the same directory, e.g. on Unix you could always use
> "./remote:" instead of "remote:" ...  (I am not 100% certain that
> something like that is possible on any host OS supported by GDB.)
> 
> But I'm certainly open to alternative interfaces.  Do you have
> suggestions for a different approach?

If "./remote:" will work, I'm fine with that; we just need to mention
that in the manual.  Can we verify that "./remote:" will work with
sysroot?

Failing that, some kind of escape-protecting the colon will do.