Re: Add support for the GDB Python Library

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of the things that we still don't have in the FSF tree is a "GDB
> Python Library" - that is a collection of standard Python scripts that
> come with GDB. The idea is to help future contributions but setting
> things up so that it's easy to add new python-based commands/functions/
> features, etc.
>
> This is what this couple of patches provide:
>  - Patch #1: Defines a pythondir where the GDB Python library is
>    expected to be found, and enhances the GDB/python support to
>    look for them there.
>  - Path #2: is built on top of patch #1, and provides the first
>    such python patch.  We selected one form project archer that
>    might be useful: pahole.py.

Is there a reason to not make pythondir be $(GDB_DATADIR)/python or some such?
[I'm not sure to what extent .pyc files are architecture independent.
Is that it?]