Re: New feature "source-id"

Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15T20:06:46Z

> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:32:12 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> But IMO the fetching of source must go through the Extension Language API.
> See gdb/extension*.[ch].
> I.e., don't do the popen in gdb. Just call out to the extension
> language via the API (e.g, Python), passing it the necessary
> parameters.

That would mean the feature will be unavailable in a GDB compiled
without Python and Guile.