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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Copy gdb-gdb.py to build dir
On 2018-06-15 05:27 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> I have thought for a long time how nice it would be to have cool pretty
> printers for GDB's internal types. Well, turns out there are few
> already in gdb-gdb.py! Unfortunately, if you build GDB outside of the
> source directory, that file never gets loaded. top-gdb will look for a
> file called
>
> ../path/to/build/gdb/gdb-gdb.py
>
> but that file is in the source directory at
>
> ../path/to/src/gdb/gdb-gdb.py
>
> This patch makes it so we copy it to the build directory, just like we
> do for gdb-gdb.gdb. With this, I can at least see the file getting
> automatically loaded:
>
> (top-gdb) info pretty-printer
> global pretty-printers:
> builtin
> mpx_bound128
> objfile /home/emaisin/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb pretty-printers:
> type_lookup_function
>
> I noticed that running "make" didn't re-generate gdb-gdb.py from
> gdb-gdb.py.in. That's because it's copied when running the configure
> script and that's it. I added a rule in the Makefile for that (and for
> gdb-gdb.gdb too) and added them as a dependency to the "all" target.
I pushed these.
Simon