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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:20:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Buildroot] gdb and external toolchain
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On 2010-09-14, William Wagner <will_wagner@carallon.com> wrote:

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> http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/FAQ
>
> It says that gdb needs un stripped libpthread and libthread_db
> libraries to work. I'm not sure if this is on the target with
> gdbserver or on the host running gdb.

The latter.  I've never had any issues debugging stripped libraries 
and binaries on the target.

> Currently buildroot strips the libraries on the target.

That should work fine.

> I've never had a problem debugging with an internal buildroot
> toolchain so presumably buildroot is correct in stripping the
> libraries on the target.

Yes.

> Has anyone seen this before and able to point me in the right
> direction?

The only two things I know about are making sure the libraries are
built with debugging symbols, and then making sure gdb can find them
(by setting the solib-absolute-prefix option in gdb).

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