Hei hei,

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:54:05PM +0100, Fritz Emboli wrote:
> i'm trying to remote debug an application.
> Host is Ubuntu 16.04 with gdb-multiarch (7.11.1)
> Client is an embedded ARM device running gdbserver (7.6.1 from ptxdist).

Did you try the gdb coming with your toolchain? You can easily access
it from your BSP, e.g.:

  ./platform-foo/selected_toolchain/arm-v5te-linux-gnueabi-gdb

> I do a "set sysroot .../ptxdist/platform-dev/root".

Do you have ./platform-dev/root-debug as a folder? Probably not, that
was dropped in an older version of ptxdist IIRC. Then you may have to
set symbol-file like this:

  symbol-file /home/adahl/…/platform-foo/root/usr/bin/.debug/.bar.dbg

(Adapt path, the file part should match with the binary you want to
debug.)

Greets
Alex

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