Re: gdbserver, sysroot, prelink

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
>
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>:
> >
> > > > > How does this make --with-sysroot useless?  That's exactly what sysroot
> > > > > is supposed to do - point it where you keep the exact libraries of the
> > > > > machine.  I usually point it to an NFS server.

Is there a command to change this (testcase, doco)?  I guess the lack of 
a command is the reason for not having it always enabled.

(Hmm, I wonder, did GDB check that the shlibs it was loading were 
compatible with the main executable?)

Andrew

> > > doesn't that assume you only have one such target machine in your
> > > installation?
>
>
> I have a different sysroot for each target machine.  They use NFS to
> root from the host I run GDB on.  Otherwise, I copy the libraries to
> the target.
>
>
> > > maybe setting the default solib-absolute-prefix to something like
> > > '[[please set solib-absolute-prefix]]' would be helpful when
> > > there isn't a sensible default.
>
>
> If there isn't a sensible default for your environment, perhaps you
> should give a nonexistant directory for --with-sysroot...
>
> -- Daniel Jacobowitz