Building GDB for debugging on ARM

I needed a way to run a remote gdb session on an ARM system from an Linux PC.

Useful link:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingCrossGDBandGDBserver

Building gdb from source, configure with:

./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi

make 

This leads to a gdb binary that runs on the host Linux PC but has an ARM target 

architecture.

Similarly a gdbserver can be built for the target machine with:

./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi

make 

On the target system we run gdbserver:

gdbserver :8888 

Note this can be a stripped binary.

On the host PC we run gdb:

file 

target remote :port

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