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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: handling of absolute source file paths (feature wish/implementation idea)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4011836A.2030603@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040122201642.GA26573@nevyn.them.org>


> Hmm, maybe, but most places that I can think of would want either
> solib, or source, but not both.  --with-sysroot just sets solib, also.
> I have no idea what it ought to do with debug...

If it is ment to act like chroot, then it should.  That way it is at 
least simple and consistent - it replaces the top-level root.   People 
can then refine the behavior using other path commands.

> Now what would be really nice would be a manual chapter referencing all
> of these.
> 
> 
>> (although an immediate source-absolute-prefix shouldn't hurt).
>> 
>> BTW, wasn't there a mechanism for editing/replacing part of the source 
>> prefix added, or did that get lost?
> 
> 
> Now that sounds like a great idea.  I can't see it in the source,
> though, and it doesn't ring a bell.

Here is a starter: pathmap semantics issues
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-11/msg00319.html
there doesn't appear to be a patch?

Andrew



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-23 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22 15:01 Gernot Hillier
2004-01-22 15:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-22 15:39   ` Gernot Hillier
2004-01-22 18:02     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-22 16:04   ` Paul Koning
2004-01-22 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-22 17:58   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-03-03 17:54     ` Baurjan Ismagulov
2004-01-22 18:45   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-22 20:16     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-23 13:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-23 20:26       ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
     [not found] <1074884800.30040.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2004-01-23 21:31 ` Jim Ingham
2004-03-03 16:12   ` Baurjan Ismagulov

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