Re: [patch+doc 1/2] filename-display: 1->4 options {inferior,libs}{,-sepdebug}

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:29:48 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 07:54 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> > We have various parameters that together specify where to find separate debug info.
> > Is it possible to piggyback on that?
> > E.g., Something minimal for now like specifying which ones are
> > displayed as relative with the default being none?
> 
> I've not really been following the discussion closely, but
> I was also wondering the same.  The ultimate goal seems to be to
> detect system vs non-system binaries ("system" is the word used
> in the new proposed knobs even).  Isn't the definitive answer
> making GDB consider files under "/usr/"
> system binaries (the --prefix by default, but could be somewhere
> else, thus should be tunable), and everything else, non-system?

Besides /usr you need also /bin, /lib, /lib64, /libx32, /opt etc. etc.

I was thinking rather about the opposite way, consider non-system binaries
those that are under /usr/local, /root and /home .

But that is all non-trivial number of directories which will never catch all
the distros/setups out there.


Thanks,
Jan