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From: "Christopher R. Johnson" <cjohnson@gcctech.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: powerpc gdb and gdbserver
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:37:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE2101D.6000005@gcctech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031218203501.GA22392@nevyn.them.org


As I mentioned, the library doesn't exist.  I need to build it, but I'm
not sure where it comes from (glibc I think) or how to get it built.
 Its a target library, so I have to build it for ppc and deliver it to
my target box.  That part I know how to do, its creating the library to
begin with that I don't know how to do.

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:27:26PM -0500, Christopher R. Johnson wrote:
>
>>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?
>>
>
>Just make a symlink to libthread_db.so.1.
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

--
Christopher R. Johnson
Principal Software Engineer
GCC Printers
(781)276-8763


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-18 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-17 17:50 powerpc gdb and gdbserver Christopher R. Johnson
2003-12-18 17:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-18 20:27   ` Christopher R. Johnson
2003-12-18 20:35     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-18 20:37       ` Christopher R. Johnson [this message]
2003-12-19 20:35         ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-12-22  3:52         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-22 15:32           ` Christopher R. Johnson
2003-12-19  9:37   ` Marius Groeger
2003-12-22  3:52     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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