From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18899 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2004 20:26:21 -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 18892 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2004 20:26:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2004 20:26:21 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F5F2B95; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:26:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4011836A.2030603@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:26:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: handling of absolute source file paths (feature wish/implementation idea) References: <200401221601.17594.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <1659-Thu22Jan2004192206+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <40101A49.1080902@gnu.org> <20040122201642.GA26573@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00271.txt.bz2 > 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