Re: How to connect to running program via a serial port

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

Nik Shaylor wrote:
> If I do Open File->Target Settings
> etc. still have to use the "Run" command and this always continues the
> execution of the program which is just what I don't want it to do.

Don't use the run button. Use the Run menu. One of the items should 
allow you to attach to the target. That does the equivalent of the 
"target remote" command on the command line.

> The only way I seems to get it to work is to start Insight running
> before the program wants to start talking to the debugger. This does
> not really work for me because I'm using the serial port for program
> trace information as well so I just want to start the debugger when I
> can see from the trace that the program has got into trouble.

This should work. Of course, now that I don't have access to a serial 
board of any type, problems are difficult to diagnose...

Keith