[Buildroot] [RFC; PATCH] Use gdbserver from external toolchain

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hi,

Le Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:47:52 +0200,
Anders Darander <anders.darander@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> I've attached a patch (formatted by git), which adds the possibility
> to have buildroot install the already compiled gdbserver from an
> external toolchain.
> 
> To  make sure that debuging works, it is preferred if both the host
> crosscompiler gdb and gdbserver is built from the same gdb version. If
> we take the gdbserver from the external toolchain, this is guaranteed.
> 
> I'm not sure that the implementation is the best, it migth be  a
> little bit "hackish". Looking forward to some comments for
> improvement.

This feature is of course very welcome, but I'd like to see the
external toolchain support to be extended to toolchains not generated
by Crosstool-NG (Codesourcery toolchains, for example, are still on my
TODO-list).

Can we imagine a way of making this more generic ? Maybe we could
detect the toolchain ?type? and act differently depending on this type ?

Sincerly,

Thomas
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