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Re: [PING] [PATCH v2 0/4] Some fixes for debug files and sysroots
On 2/11/19 6:53 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2019-02-11 12:54 p.m., John Baldwin wrote:
>> On 1/28/19 12:47 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> Relative to the first series:
>>>
>>> 1) I combined the duplicate checks for "are we in a sysroot" in the
>>> first patch as as suggested by Simon.
>>>
>>> 2) I dropped the second patch (trim trailing '/' from sysroot).
>>>
>>> 3) Patches 2 and 3 are a different take on solving the issue when the
>>> sysroot ends in '/'. Patch 2 adds a 'child_path' function to
>>> determine if a child path is a child of a parent (requiring the child
>>> to have at least one component "below" the parent). It also returns
>>> a pointer to the first component below the parent (but after the
>>> directory separator). Patch 3 uses child_path in
>>> find_separate_debug_file which fixes it in the case that the sysroot
>>> ends in a /.
>>>
>>> 4) The 4th patch is a new patch for a different issue I ran into while
>>> testing this some more today. The paths to object files are always
>>> canonical paths with symlinks resolved. If the sysroot entered by
>>> the user is a path containing symlinks, the filename_ncmp will
>>> never match. To handle sysroot paths that traverse symlinks,
>>> use gdb_realpath to generate a canonical sysroot path and use that
>>> instead of gdb_sysroot with child_path.
>>>
>>> As an aside, it's not clear to me when one should use gdb_realpath
>>> instead of lrealpath. gdb_realpath seems more widespread and also
>>> returns an RAII-friendly type, so I used that.
>>>
>>> John Baldwin (4):
>>> Look for separate debug files in debug directories under a sysroot.
>>> Add a new function child_path.
>>> Use child_path to determine if an object file is under a sysroot.
>>> Try to use the canonical version of a sysroot for debug file links.
>>
>> Just a ping.
>>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Note the comments on patch #2, otherwise this LGTM.
>
> Thanks!
Thanks, I've pushed it with the fixes in #2. Do you want to push your
build-id + sysroot fix?
--
John Baldwin