From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-patches-return-60244-listarch-gdb-patches=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 26295 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2008 04:11:54 -0000
Received: (qmail 26237 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Nov 2008 04:11:54 -0000
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il (HELO mtaout7.012.net.il) (84.95.2.19)     by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:11:11 +0000
Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KAT00C00KSZXF00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:12:21 +0200 (IST)
Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.168.41]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KAT005ODL0KKW20@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:12:21 +0200 (IST)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:54:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: too many "no debugging symbols found" messages from shared libs
In-reply-to: <8ac60eac0811221107s47cd5d30o472a46842a5a33ed@mail.gmail.com>
X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: dje@google.com, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Message-id: <ufxlhix1t.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <18261.86.86.3.213.1227305211.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <e394668d0811211453q7f72d305u58eed9539ebf9dc8@mail.gmail.com> <uskpkhszs.fsf@gnu.org> <8ac60eac0811221107s47cd5d30o472a46842a5a33ed@mail.gmail.com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb-patches.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-patches-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00635.txt.bz2

> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:07:48 -0800
> From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
> Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl,         brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Can we find a good way of supporting both these use cases?
> 
> Any library under /lib{,64}, /usr/lib{,64} and /usr/local/lib{,64}
> is likely not an "application in development" library (although
> there are obvious exceptions to this heuristic).
> 
> Another alternative: allow the user to "silence" specific
> libraries via a glob pattern, e.g.
> 
>   set system-library "/lib*/libc.so.6 /lib*/libpthread.so.1"
> 
> The default could be "/lib* /usr/lib* /usr/local/lib*", which
> would be equivalent to the heuristic above. A user who cares
> about all libraries could reset this to "". A user who
> doesn't care about any could set this to "*".

I'd prefer the latter method.

> [Use ';' instead of space to separate patterns on *win* targets.]

Yes, and Windows needs a different default for the system libraries.