FYI: fix PR python/13199
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Tue Jan 10 21:29:00 GMT 2012
I'm checking this in on the trunk.
This changes the Python startup to set sys.argv.
This is needed by some Python modules.
I think it is best to set argv this way, because we don't have any
scripting support. We may add this (the old branch has 'gdb -P'), but
in the meantime this fixes a problem.
Tom
2012-01-10 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
PR python/13199:
* python/python.c (finish_python_initialization): Set sys.argv.
diff --git a/gdb/python/python.c b/gdb/python/python.c
index b0b9a9c..61386a5 100644
--- a/gdb/python/python.c
+++ b/gdb/python/python.c
@@ -1369,6 +1369,9 @@ def GdbSetPythonDirectory (dir):\n\
GdbSetPythonDirectory (gdb.PYTHONDIR)\n\
# Default prompt hook does nothing.\n\
prompt_hook = None\n\
+# Ensure that sys.argv is set to something.\n\
+# We do not use PySys_SetArgvEx because it did not appear until 2.6.6.\n\
+sys.argv = ['']\n\
");
do_cleanups (cleanup);
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