Re: How to configure a cross gdb to debug natively

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:12:22PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > I don't think this is generally appropriate.  For one thing, it further
> > breaks the consistency of cross-compiling.  If I have ${host} !=
> > ${target} then I am definitely building a cross debugger and that's
> 
> I thought the only difference between the native debugger and the
> cross debugger was you couldn't debug natibely with the cross
> debugger, but you could use the native debugger to debug in a
> cross environment.

The difference is that all code in NATDEPFILES is not included in a
cross debugger, yes.  That can substantially change the way that GDB
works.  If you configure for a cross debugger, you should expect to get
a cross debugger out.

> > what I expect to get out.  Why not build your tools --host=i386-linux
> > instead?
> 
> As I said, gdb is the part of my tool source tree. I don't want to
> use --host=i386-linux so that gcc and bintils won't use any header
> files and libraries on the host machine.

Build host-x-host instead?
../src/configure --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --host=i386-linux \
	--target=i386-linux

Ought to give you a native debugger and compilers and not reference
host files.  Or do you mean that you want to build cross compilers and
a native debugger at the same time?  You're configuring parts of the
tree for different targets essentially if you do that.  It may work in
this case, but I doubt it's always supposed to work, and a hack to try
to support it seems like a bad idea.  Note that GDB is going to want
host header files if you build it as native - things like
<sys/procfs.h>.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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