Re: Using dlopen and remote debugging

["Dr. Rolf Jansen" <rj at surtec dot com>]

Am 25.02.2008 um 10:31 schrieb Daniel Jacobowitz:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:03:09AM -0300, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
>
> > In my case this was impossible. The remote machine happened to run
> > Windows XP and the host Mac OS X. I found no way to let Mac OS X
> > understand a full path like "C:\path\to\my\exe\and\dll. I needed to  
> > patch
> > gdbserver. In the latest CVS version I changed server.c beginning  
> > at line
> > 528 to:
>
> Then just set solib-search-path; GDB will look up the basenames.

I did this to no avail.

> There is an additional wrinkle involving path separators, since GDB
> is likely to think that is bare filename and not a full path.

Yeah, as I said, the host gdb at the Mac does not understand the path  
semantics that is send from gdbserver at Windows.

> But it should be fixed on the GDB side, not on the target side.

I am comfortable with that - fix it however and whenever you want!  
Once it is fixed, I will abandon my quick hack. Until that I have a  
working solution.

> This one's been discussed a few times recently.

Discussions are good, solutions are better - even quick 'n dirty ones.

Rolf