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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/thread-db.c8
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index df3ed27..99786d2 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-11-22 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
+
+ * thread-db.c (thread_db_load): Tell the user what's going on
+ if dlopen fails on libthread_db.
+
2002-11-23 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
* m68k-tdep.c (m68k_register_virtual_type): Use architecture
diff --git a/gdb/thread-db.c b/gdb/thread-db.c
index 9338c57..8140437 100644
--- a/gdb/thread-db.c
+++ b/gdb/thread-db.c
@@ -292,7 +292,13 @@ thread_db_load (void)
handle = dlopen (LIBTHREAD_DB_SO, RTLD_NOW);
if (handle == NULL)
- return 0;
+ {
+ fprintf_filtered (gdb_stderr, "\n\ndlopen failed on '%s' - %s\n",
+ LIBTHREAD_DB_SO, dlerror ());
+ fprintf_filtered (gdb_stderr,
+ "GDB will not be able to debug pthreads.\n\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
/* Initialize pointers to the dynamic library functions we will use.
Essential functions first. */