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RE: Disabling sysroot


>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> writes:

 >> > It would be even nicer to have a way to 'turn off' sysroot > for
 >> this case.  Something like "unset sysroot".  I'm not > sure if
 >> "unset" is something that GDB supports.
 >> 
 >> It is, but unsetting sysroot does not mean what you want.  Without
 >> a sysroot, libraries are searched for in the root filesystem on
 >> the host.  You want to actually disable searching by full path;
 >> gdb has no option for that.

 Marc> From what I understand, it would be nice if unset sysroot
 Marc> disabled sysrtoot, while an explicit set sysrtoot "/" be used
 Marc> to search from the root.  But, for the sake of backwards
 Marc> compatibility, this should probably be left alone and /dev/null
 Marc> used for sysrtoot to disable it.

There should be a user-friendly way to disable sysroot, and that
should be on by default in a cross-gdb.

       paul


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