Re: How to use shell environment variable in GDB?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-12T11:20:19Z

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:00:02PM +0800, Weihua JIANG wrote:
> E.g. I have a shell environment variable CSR which points to a deep
> directory. Now I hope to load the executable file using below command:
> file $CSR/bin/aaa
> But, since GDB can't recognize this environment variable, it can't
> load the executable file.
>
> How can I use BASH environment variable in GDB?

This is not supported. You might be able to use this hack:

shell echo file $CSR/bin/aaa > tmp.scr
source tmp.scr
shell rm tmp.scr

--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery