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authorGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>2015-04-02 13:38:29 +0100
committerGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>2015-04-02 13:38:29 +0100
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Document "target:" sysroot changes
This commit documents the newly added "target:" sysroot feature. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Announce the new default sysroot of "target:". gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (set sysroot): Document "target:".
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present in the debug info. This typically includes the compiler version
and may include things like its command line arguments.
+* Directory names supplied to the "set sysroot" commands may be
+ prefixed with "target:" to tell GDB to access shared libraries from
+ the target system, be it local or remote. This replaces the prefix
+ "remote:". The default sysroot has been changed from "" to
+ "target:". "remote:" is automatically converted to "target:" for
+ backward compatibility.
+
* Python Scripting
** gdb.Objfile objects have a new attribute "username",