From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:24:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from real.realitydiluted.com ([208.242.241.164]:45546 "EHLO real.realitydiluted.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:24:32 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=realitydiluted.com) by real.realitydiluted.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17rHOp-00040I-00; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 07:24:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3D87653E.9030702@realitydiluted.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:24:14 -0500 From: "Steven J. Hill" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Hughes CC: Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: cannot debug multi-threaded programs with gdb/gdbserver References: <3D876053.C2CD1D8C@zee2.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 203 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sjhill@realitydiluted.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Stuart Hughes wrote: > > Does anyone know whether there is some special setup needed on > gdb/gdbserver to use the multi-threaded gdbserver ?? > Wow, there are so many things to tell you...where to start... > My environment is as follows: > > CPU: NEC VR5432 > kernel: linux-2.4.18 + patches > glibc: 2.2.3 + patches > gdb: 5.2/3 from CVS > Has to be the gdb-5.3 branch...go look at http://sources.redhat.com/gdb > gcc: 3.1 > binutils: Version 2.11.90.0.25 > Don't use H.J. Lu's binutils, use the released one. Use gcc-3.2 and binutils-2.13 as they have fixes for the MIPS debugging symbols with regards to DWARF. > cross-gdb configured using: > > configure --prefix=/usr --target=mipsel-linux --disable-sim > --disable-tcl --enable-threads --enable-shared > Use '--target=mips-linux' and you'll be better off. Don't worry, it will support both endians. > gdbserver configured using: > > configure --prefix=/usr --host=mipsel-linux --target=mipsel-linux > --enable-threads --enable-shared > I would also try 'CC=mipsel-linux-gcc configure <...>'. -Steve