[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] A good debugger infrastructure

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:35 +0200, ext Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:29 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 20:31 +0200, ext Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 21:45 +0400, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > > > Nevertheless I'd like to re-empathize that software developers working
> > > > > on embedded devices like the Nokia 770 are very much in need of a good
> > > > > debugging infrastructure like gdbserver.
> > > > Could you please be more specific?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Running gdbserver on the device. Or is that already possible? Afaik it's
> > > not.
> 
> > It just works in my environment. What makes you think it doesn't work?
> > Did you try to use it? What exactly didn't work?
> 
> Awesome .. how do I make it work? Is there an ARM package for it?
> 
> I didn't try, no.
You should definitely try first :)

gdbserver is included into gdb package. You can install it from 
http://repository.maemo.org/ repo:

echo "deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral free non-free"
>> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update && apt-get install gdb


-- 
Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>
Nokia-M/Helsinki