Re: How to fix solib path name?

[Aleksandar Ristovski <aristovski at qnx dot com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 16:14:41, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
> > Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 08 July 2009 15:45:23, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
> > > > See solib_find comment in "solib.c" for figuring out how it 
> > > > looks for it.
> > > >
> > > > You can provide "find_and_open_solib" in your target_ops for 
> > > > customizing it (in case you want to provide "default" search 
> > > > algorithm when built-in solib-search-path mechanism fails to 
> > > > find it).
> > > Please don't go there, it's not really needed.
> > I thought the mechanism worked quite nicely. For us at least.
> >
> > If solib-search-path is not set, we end up searching solibs 
> > using find_and_open_solib.
> >
> > When solib-search-path is set, then it takes precedence and 
> > only if solib is not found there, we fallback to 
> > find_and_open_solib.
> >
> > What would you do differently?
>
> Use "(gdb) set sysroot".

That is for absolute paths. For relative paths 
find_and_open_solib is still a way to go IMHO - if you 
disagree I would like to hear your rationale.


Thanks,

Aleksandar