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Re: shared library symbols not loaded automatically


>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

 Daniel> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:12:56PM +0530, Kunal Parmar wrote:
 >> Hi Daniel, I am not clear how setting solib-absolute-prefix will
 >> solve this problem.  The manual says that it is used as a prefix
 >> for searching the libraries at runtime.  When I use the command
 >> sharedlibrary at the gdb prompt, the libraries are correctly
 >> loaded.  Doesn't this mean that I do not need to set the
 >> solib-absolute-prefix??

 Daniel> Not if they're the wrong libraries.

 Daniel> You may be loading literally "/lib/libc.so.6" on your host -
 Daniel> an i386 library.

It would be a good feature if GDB didn't do that for crossbuilds,
because it can't possibly be correct...

	paul


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