Thank you sir!
Its good to know!

I never got a feeling that they are scripts! I just
thought that those executables (lib500, etc)
are binary files!

Bye
Sanjeev

--- Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Sanjeev wrote:
>
> > But, well i tried to debug it so that may be i
> will have an understanding
> > of where exactly it was stopped, but unfortunately
> gdb denies the file
> > format to recognize as a executable code. Though i
> could run test500/1/2/3,
> > i couldn't debug them even!
>
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > This GDB was configured as
> >
>
"i386-mandrake-linux"..."/mnt/usr/data/build/CURLCVS/build/curl/tests/libtest/lib504":
> > not in executable format: File format not
> recognized
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > i also tried with 'gdb lib504' which failed even!
> But the make is
> > successfull and when i type './lib504' it returned
> Pass URL as argument
> > please.
>
> Right, if you don't run configure with the
> --disable-shared option, you'll
> get shell scripts using those names that when run
> invoke the proper program
> with the correct variables set to load the proper
> library.
>
> We should probably make 'runtests.pl -g' check if
> the tool to invoke is a
> shell script, and then we should invoke it with
> libtool accordingly.
>
> With --disable-shared you don't get that shell
> script trick. I use this
> approach, as it also makes break-pointing etc
> easier.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks
> URLs.
>
>
>
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