From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FE20DAE.6010708@gcctech.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:27:26 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Johnson" Reply-To: cjohnson@gcctech.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: powerpc gdb and gdbserver References: <3FE0977B.7020504@gcctech.com> <20031218171010.GA16791@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Ok that worked pretty well, except that gdbserver wants a library called libthread_db.so on the target. From what little I can find this looks like something I should build from the glibc mess. Does anyone know what options I need to add to the glibc build in order to create this library? Thanks! Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:50:51PM -0500, Christopher R. Johnson wrote: > >>I'm about to go and grab gdb to build a host-based debugger and >>target-based (PPC 405GP) gdbserver. Anybody out there with advice on >>how to do this? Should it just work out of the box or is there stuff I >>need to do to gdbserver for this platform? The sources I just found are >>gdb-6.0, and I'm using quite recent tools (gcc 3.3.2 glibc 2.3.2 >>binutils 2.14.90.0.5 - kudos to Dan Kegle for the crosstools stuff!!!). >> >>Thanks! >> > >It should simply build and work. You build GDB by setting a --target >and gdbserver by setting a --host. If you don't want to build a native >GDB at the same time, run the --host build by gdbserver/configure >instead of the top-level src/configure. > >-- >Daniel Jacobowitz >MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer > > -- Christopher R. Johnson Principal Software Engineer GCC Printers (781)276-8763 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/