FW: gdbserver 5.0

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bell
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:34 AM
To: Martin Bell
Subject: gdbserver 5.0

hi,

I have built a gdbserver 5.0 suitable for the ARM architecture.

Through testing I have found it to work fine on everything (gtk stuff
included) but multi-threaded binaries - this is a fault of gdbserver 5.0

and 5.1 and not the result of a bad build. It has been tested on
familiar 0.4 and intimate and is okay.

The gdbserver README is easily found through google as a howto. It is
important that for this to be useable, GDB on the host side must be 5.0
and be configured as

--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux

This makes that particular GDB only usable for cross-debugging from i686

to arm - which is what you want.

Hint: a silly mistake I kept making was running gdb thinking I was
running the cross-debugger when really (because of the PATH) I was
running the native gdb. Use alias to over come this if you need to.

I have not tested the gdbserver on familiar 0.5 and would appreciate any

feed back if someone does try it.

Thanks for all your help. If anyone would like find the gdbserver 5.0
binary useful, please contact me directly and I shall try to respond. I
hope this is useful to you.

Martin.