From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:16:56 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] How to get symbolic debugging to work? In-Reply-To: <1245830343.3872.9.camel@sven> References: <1245830343.3872.9.camel@sven> Message-ID: <20090624091656.GD22116@mx.loc> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:59:03AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:18 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-06-22, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> > I've given up temporarily on getting thread support to work in >> > gdbserver. Now I'm just trying (and failing) to get basic >> > symbolic debugging to work. >> >> Gdb 6.8 just plain doesn't work for ARM targets. >> >> I switched to 6.7.1, and it works fine (including debugging >> multiple threaded apps). > >We also have problems with gdb 6.8 on the ARM. Or in other words, it >just plain does not work. I will now follow your advice and switch to >version 6.7.1. If that actually helps, then buildroot should probably >select that version when building for an ARM target (similar as what is >done currently for AVR32). Alternatively you could check if it works OK with the current gdb and file a bug either against 6.8 with or CVS PS: I see that you don't have a required fix for m68k for 6.8, just as a sidenote