From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14423 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2012 15:27:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 14411 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Sep 2012 15:27:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from server-nat-6.cs.umd.edu (HELO bacon.cs.umd.edu) (128.8.127.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:27:26 +0000 Received: from [10.109.170.227] (129-2-129-154.wireless.umd.edu [129.2.129.154]) (Authenticated sender: khooyp) by bacon.cs.umd.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7147B407E2; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:27:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Khoo Yit Phang In-Reply-To: <890A9038-FD1F-41BE-9FCC-0C2FFBD5F646@cs.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:27:00 -0000 Cc: Eli Zaretskii , brobecker@adacore.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <21ACC598-F6B4-4117-BA7B-B316414DE9E3@cs.umd.edu> <20120919130040.GA20442@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120921183122.GB8747@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120922110822.GA28159@host2.jankratochvil.net> <78B3333C-92F9-474D-8352-087C5A0F575B@cs.umd.edu> <20120924072945.GA4146@adacore.com> <836273jy7s.fsf@gnu.org> <83y5jziieg.fsf@gnu.org> <890A9038-FD1F-41BE-9FCC-0C2FFBD5F646@cs.umd.edu> To: Khoo Yit Phang X-CSD-MailScanner-ID: C7147B407E2.AEBE2 X-CSD-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSD-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-50, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -50.00) X-CSD-MailScanner-From: khooyp@cs.umd.edu X-CSD-MailScanner-Watermark: 1349105244.95678@AZUUUi+0Glywp0E+WndiVQ Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00510.txt.bz2 Hi, On Sep 24, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Khoo Yit Phang wrote: > On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >=20 >>> From: Khoo Yit Phang >>=20 >> First, running gdb on gdb is an important use case. >=20 > Yes, and instead of running "gdb gdb/gdb", you'd run "gdb gdb/gdb-the-rea= l-binary", which I think is trivial for GDB developers. >=20 >> Second, there are systems (like MS-Windows) which cannot run Unix >> shell scripts natively. >=20 > That's easy to fix, write the redirector as a C program and compile it at= the same time gdb-the-real-binary is compiled. Come to think of it, with GDB's follow-exec-mode, making the redirector a C= program installed as "gdb/gdb" that exec's "gdb/gdb-the-real-binary" shoul= d also allow running "gdb gdb/gdb" to work, shouldn't it? Yit September 24, 2012