GDB with Guile for Debian

[Basile Starynkevitch]

Hello all

(I did contribute in the past to GCC but am unfamiliar with GDB internals; my OS is Linux only; computers are AMD64, and I am French).

1. I was able to compile a GDB  16.3 with GNU guile enabled:


(gdb) show configuration 
This GDB was configured as follows:
   configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
	     --with-auto-load-dir=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
	     --with-auto-load-safe-path=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
	     --with-expat
	     --with-gdb-datadir=/usr/local/share/gdb (relocatable)
	     --with-jit-reader-dir=/usr/local/lib/gdb (relocatable)
	     --without-libunwind-ia64
	     --with-lzma
	     --with-babeltrace
	     --with-intel-pt
	     --with-xxhash
	     --with-python=/usr
	     --with-python-libdir=/usr/lib
	     --with-debuginfod
	     --with-curses
	     --with-guile
	     --without-amd-dbgapi
	     --enable-source-highlight
	     --enable-threading
	     --enable-tui
	     --without-system-readline
	     --with-separate-debug-dir=/usr/local/lib/debug (relocatable)

That home built GDB is on /usr/local/bin/gdb

(I would like but don't know how to configure and build it so that it goes into /usr/local/bin/my-gdb ....)


I also have a suggestion but don't have the qualification and time to implement it. Have Python-enabled GDB to look for a .gdbinit-python before a .gdbinit, and have 
Guile-enabled GDB to look for .gdbinit-guile before the .gdbinit.

Maybe theere is some why to code a "portable" .gdbinit which could work with a Python-enabled GDB and a Guile-enabled GDB.

Regards.

NB sorry for my bad English. I am French, and coding a GPL licensed inference engine [refpersys]
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