[PATCH] Use search path for scripts

Andrew STUBBS andrew.stubbs@st.com
Mon Nov 28 19:34:00 GMT 2005


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:17:35 -0500
>>From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>>Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>>
>>Most users don't ever have to add a source path.  If you're using a
>>modern compiler, and debugging something built locally, and not using
>>certain kinds of include path constructs (which is unambiguously an
>>open, and recently discussed, bug in GDB) then GDB will Just Find
>>Things.
> 
> 
> Would it be reasonable to make GDB look for scripts in the source file
> directories recorded in the debug info?  Assuming you accept the
> argument that scripts are usually in the source tree, that sounds
> plausible, no?
> 

The scripts I am interested in finding are *not* in the source tree. 
They are in a 'manually added' directory added from the command line 
with the -d switch.

Andrew



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