On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:47:46PM +0100, Ruediger Pluem wrote: > On 10/30/2005 06:29 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > > I thought you needed RH-specific patches - that is, no regular > > (i.e. GNU-stock) version of GDB will support PIE. -- justin
There's nothing Red Hat specific about PIE, it's all supported in the upstream toolchain. > Thanks for the hint. Meanwhile I downloaded the source RPM of > > http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/3/x86_64/gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.43.x86_64.html > > which compiled fine on RHEL 3. But debugging still does not work :-(. > I guess the problem now is that my kernel does not give the needed support to > gdb as I found > something about /proc/PID/auxv it tries to use which is not available on my > system. Ah, yeah, there is that too. The PIE stuff was really only introduced in RHEL4 so trying to get this to work on old systems may be hard work. The RHEL4 gdb+kernel can happily debug PIE binaries, anyway. joe
