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Re: Disabling sysroot
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:13:13 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:34:02AM -0400, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in the doc it says:
> >
> > If you want to use `solib-search-path' instead of
> > `sysroot', be sure to set `sysroot' to a nonexistent directory to prevent GDB
> > from finding your host's libraries.
> >
> > Is there a recommended way to turn off sysroot?
> > I can set it to something like /what/are/the/odds/of/this/dir/actually/existing
> > But it is not very elegant.
>
> I use /dev/null, which will never be a directory.
Is this worth mentioning in the manual?