[Buildroot] gdb and external toolchain

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:30:31 +0100
William Wagner <will_wagner at carallon.com> wrote:

> I'm using an external toolchain and want to get gdbserver onto my 
> target. I've seen the patch by Thomas that says that gdb host and 
> gdbserver should be provided by the external toolchain and I have set 
> crosstools-ng to build them both.
> 
> The question I have is is there any mechanism to copy the gdbserver 
> executable built with crosstools into the target directory.

Not today.

> I can't find anything that should be doing this. I can just copy the file over 
> manually but was thinking I should add support for this to buildroot. 
> Any suggestions on how to do this?

Doing this is on my todo list (with a few other improvements related
to debugging), but I haven't yet thought on how to implement this.

Regards,

Thomas
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