Re: gdbserver on PowerPC Issues

[Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

 Daniel> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:22:56PM -0500, Paul Mundt wrote:
 >> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:39, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > The
 >> problem is presumably that you haven't told GDB where to look for
 >> > the dynamic linker and shared libraries.  Try using 'set >
 >> solib-absolute-prefix' before you 'target remote'.
 >> > 
 >> Ah! This was indeed the problem. Though oddly enough, adjusting
 >> solib-absolute-prefix didn't make the problem go away. I had to
 >> set it to /dev/null and then set solib-search-patch to the proper
 >> directory before the issue would fix itself.
 >> 
 >> There was some CRIS documentation hinting that that would only be
 >> necessary if the end of the path wasn't /lib, but in this case it
 >> was.

 Daniel> Mind setting solib-absolute-prefix and stracing GDB to see
 Daniel> what it was opening, then?  It really should work.

Depends on whether the library names are given in the image with a
leading slash or not.  If yes, then the absolute prefix setting
matters; if not, the search path.

	 paul