[Buildroot] Buildroot 2010.05-rc3 released

[Yann E. MORIN]

Kris, All,

On Thursday 27 May 2010 20:58:43 Microbit_Ubuntu wrote:
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> PS : ct-ng only offers "linuxthreads".

That's only true if you build a uClibc-based toolchain. If you build a
glibc- or a eglibc-based toolchain, then crosstool-NG allows you to
use NPTL.

So I'll take that you build a uClibc-based toolchain...

> So are we supposed to use 
> "stable/old" in BR or "new" (latter, I guess) ????

That has to match the way you configured uClibc in your toolchain.
Check the uClibc .config file for that.

> I seem to have had problems with that - invoking gdbserver prompts :
> "can't load libthread_db.so.1".
> This worked fine with internal toolchain... Anyone ?

libthread_db.so.1 is dlopen(3)ed by gdbserver, so you have to get it on
your target, in the standard libraries search path.

Also, there is a known dangling issue wrt cross-gdb + gdbserver.
See this thread:
  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-May/034435.html

In short, you have to get the cross-gdb *and* the gdbserver from the
same version of gdb, to be sure they know how to speak to each other.
So: either get both from crosstool-NG, or get both from buildroot.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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