Re: gdb problems on lin3

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, May 23, 2001, at 03:53 PM, Mark Allison wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> I am having some problems debugging on lin3:
>
> bash$ gdb Sema
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> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
>
> "/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/Sema": not in executable format: File format 
> not recognized
>
> Running /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/Sema manually works fine.
>
> Any ideas?

The contents of /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/ are shell scripts which set up 
environment
variables and launch the actual binaries.

To debug the binary you should use 
/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/is86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/Sema
or (on a system with an older version of GNUstep),
/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/is86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/Sema


I tend to do a ps -axw to get the actual paths of running programs and 
paste those onto
the command line when starting gdb.