Possible fix for mingw32 directory relocation problems

[asmwarrior]

On 2012-1-17 22:49, Pierre Muller wrote:
>> Possible patch is attached.
>> Can you try it?  I don't know that it will fix things, but based on
>> what you've said it seems reasonable to try.
>    I tried it...
> But got really into troubles to regenerate configure and config.in using
> Cygwin
> installation...
>    I finally discovered gcc-tools-epoch2 cygwin package
> that allowed me to successfully regenerate configure and config.in
I just use MSYS+autotools 2.68 to generate configure and config.in under src/gdb. I changed one file, see the change:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-01/msg00591.html

The trick is that MSYS does not supply autoconf version 2.64, they have 2.63 and 2.65, but I'm not sure why 2.64 is skipped.

>    After that I did recompile and install gdb into e:\pas\fpc-2.7.1 directory
> by specifying --prefix=/e/pas/fpc-2.7.1
> (I tested with --preficx=e:/pas/fpc-2.4.4, which worked the same)
>
> E:\pas\fpc-2.7.1\gdb>cd bin
>
> E:\pas\fpc-2.7.1\gdb\bin>.\gdb ./gdb
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.50.20120117-cvs
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32".
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
> Reading symbols from E:\pas\fpc-2.7.1\gdb\bin\gdb.exe...done.
> (gdb) py print gdb.PYTHONDIR
> e:\pas\fpc-2.7.1\gdb\share\gdb/python
> (gdb) py
>> end
> (gdb) q
>
> E:\pas\fpc-2.7.1\gdb\bin>cd ..\..
>
> E:\pas\fpc-2.7.1>cp -Rf gdb ..\fpc-2.6.0
>
> E:\pas\fpc-2.7.1>cd ..\fpc-2.6.0\gdb\bin
>
> E:\pas\fpc-2.6.0\gdb\bin>.\gdb ./gdb
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.50.20120117-cvs
> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32".
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
> Reading symbols from E:\pas\fpc-2.6.0\gdb\bin\gdb.exe...done.
> (gdb) py print gdb.PYTHONDIR
> e:\pas\fpc-2.6.0\gdb\share\gdb/python
> (gdb)
>
> So the basic idea of rebasing gdb/python seems to work,
> the next problem is that I never used python scripts
> so that I didn't know what else to do to check that this directory is really
> functional!
There are many python printer related function under the share folder of gdb, the simply one is "info pretty-printer", but there are many other commands.

If the gdb's own python script does NOT loaded correctly, when you run "info pretty-printer", gdb will say that there is not such command.

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