powerpc gdb and gdbserver

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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
> >
> >
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> Christopher R. Johnson
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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