From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19010 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2003 02:31:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18962 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 02:31:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao04.cox.net) (68.1.17.241) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 02:31:12 -0000 Received: from white ([68.9.191.65]) by lakemtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20030929023111.TUIZ29227.lakemtao04.cox.net@white> for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:31:11 -0400 Received: from bob by white with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3nod-0002pq-00 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:31:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:33:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Finding absolute path from relative. Message-ID: <20030929023111.GC10687@white> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20030929022128.GB10687@white> <20030929022538.GA9969@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030929022538.GA9969@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00360.txt.bz2 On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:25:38PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:28PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am thinking about the algorithm required to find the absolute path to > > a source file given the relative path and the output from 'show dir'. > > > > Is it really as easy as this, > > > > for I in 'show dir' # for each directory in show dir > > if $I/relative_path exists > > break; # Found absolute path. > > > > Or does it get more complex and obfuscated? > > Well, often the input file has a specified directory. That gets tried > first. > > Anyway, there's a good comment or two about this in the source code... Could you get me started in the right direction? ( ex. files of interest ) Either, I could write an MI command that would take a relative source path and convert it into an absolute path, or I could write a function in my front end that does the work. I personally think an MI command could eventually be more helpful to everyone. Bob Rossi