[Bug gdb/17917] New: gdbserver should lookup build-ids in the remote binaries

["eseidel at google dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17917

            Bug ID: 17917
           Summary: gdbserver should lookup build-ids in the remote
                    binaries
           Product: gdb
           Version: unknown
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdb
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: eseidel at google dot com

gdbserver should lookup build-ids in the remote binaries

Right now gdbserver only sends the library_name back to gdb and gdb looks for
library_name in $PATH, etc.  Only if it finds library_name on the local machine
*then* it begins the .build-id search using the build-id it found in the local
binary.  In my application I don't always have a local binary (or have an easy
way to pull the binary from the remote), but I do have a .build-id tree full of
links to the symbold versions of all binarys on the remote.  Having gdbserver
send the build-id to gdb would be useful.


Steps:

1. Build your program (and libraries) with build-ids enabled
gcc -Wlbuild-id -o my_library.so library.

2. Setup a .build-id directory tree:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
e.g.:
% readelf -n -e my_library.so
build-id: abcdef123456

mkdir -p .build-id/ab
ln -s my_libary_with_symbols.so .build-id/ab/cdef123456.debug

3. Launch under gdbserver on a remote system.
gdbserver :1234 my_program

4.  Connect to remote system:
gdb my_program
(gdb) target remote 1.2.3.4:1234

5.  Be sad that my_library has no symbols, even though you have a .build-id
directory for it.

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