Trouble with gdbserver from gdb-5.3, glibc-2.3.2 on ppc32

[Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>]

I'm trying to bring up gdbserver2 on an ppc32 embedded linux platform, and
I'm running in to the following message.  It doesn't alway appear, so
it has me pretty confused....

sh-2.05b# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.21-rc1 (pbarada@hyper) (gcc version 3.3.1) #21 Tue Sep 9 15:43
sh-2.05b# gdbserver2 :3001 /usr/local/bin/page.strip -m16m -J < /dev/lp0
Process /usr/local/bin/page.strip created; pid = 35
Remote debugging from host 10.1.1.2
gdb: error initializing thread_db library.

I modified gdbserver/thread-db.c::thread_db_init to print the value of
the err that is returned form td_ta_new, and the result is 0x16 which
if I read glibc-2.3.2/linuxthreads_db/thread_db.h correctly, the 0x16
returned from td_ta_new() is TD_VERSION which means the version of
libpthread doesn't match the version of libthread_db.

If I look in gdb for the type of TD_VERSION I don't see TD_VERSION
even thos I see it in linuxthreads_db/thread_db.h:

(gdb) ptype TD_OK
type = enum {TD_OK, TD_ERR, TD_NOTHR, TD_NOSV, TD_NOLWP, TD_BADPH, TD_BADTH, TD_BADSH, 
    TD_BADTA, TD_BADKEY, TD_NOMSG, TD_NOFPREGS, TD_NOLIBTHREAD, TD_NOEVENT, 
    TD_NOCAPAB, TD_DBERR, TD_NOAPLIC, TD_NOTSD, TD_MALLOC, TD_PARTIALREG, TD_NOXREGS}
(gdb) ptype TD_VERSION
No symbol "TD_VERSION" in current context.

My question is how I can tell why gdbserver believes that the verion
of libpthread.so.0 doesn't match the version of libthread_db.so.1?
Whath options to readelf do I need?

execution doesn't work after this (i.e. 'inf thr' doesn't show me my
thread, etc).  I'm wondering if there's a deeper problem...

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