[Buildroot] BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR and gdb

[Yann E. MORIN]

Pieterjan, Peter,

On 2015-11-26 22:23 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Pieterjan" == Pieterjan Camerlynck <pieterjan.camerlynck at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  > Hi,
>  > Since the introduction of BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR, /lib is now a symlink
>  > to /usr/lib on the target. In the sysroot directory however, /lib and
>  > /usr/lib are separate directories.
> 
>  > When remote debugging, this causes gdb to search only for libraries in
>  > /lib under the sysroot directory.
>  > Is there a way to fix this situation other than using "set solib-search-path"?
> 
> Thanks for the report. I guess we'll need to do the same merged-usr
> handling (and workarounds) we do for the target directory also for
> staging.
> 
> Yann is looking into it, but it is nontrivial so it will most likely not
> make it for 2015.11.

It turned out to (hopefully) be much easier than I expected.

Pieterjan, care to test the series I just sent (in which you were CCed),
please, and report whether it fixes it for you or not? Thanks!

FTR:
    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/549237/
    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/549238/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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