Re: Source directory trees not in build location

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:17:46PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> We have a large source tree with many directories.  When the system is
> built that tree appears in one place in the namespace; then the build
> results are saved in "good builds" directories, one per good build up
> to whatever we can save.
> 
> The result is that source files are not where they were at build time.
> 
> GDB can handle this on a per-directory basis with the "directory"
> command, but when you have on the order of a hundred directories that
> is excessively painful.
> 
> I made a local patch to add a source path name rewriting rule.  That
> allows a substring of the source path name to be replaced by some
> different substring.  The current implementation is simplistic -- it
> allows exactly one substitution rule, and the matching is exact string
> match.  It would be possible to allow multiple rules, and probably
> also fancier mechanisms like regexps.  That wasn't necessary for our
> application.
> 
> Is this of interest to the greater GDB?
> 
>    paul
> 

Well, I'm not sure if that's necessary. Has anyone gone back to this
patch http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-10/msg00092.html?

Although, your solution seems really nice too.

Bob Rossi