Re: gobject.pyc: gdb was not built with custom backtrace support, disabling.

[Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 27/06/14 16:18, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 27/06/14 14:19, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> This message comes from /usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py. How this
>>>> path is included into gdb? I want to remove it from processing.
>>>
>>> This is coming from the frame filter installed with that
>>> package.  Ideally a frame filter should print nothing if it cannot
>>> process a stack-frame.  You can remove it permanently from processing
>>> by uninstalling the package that installs the frame filter (in Fedora's
>>> case, that is glib-devel I think).
>>>
>>> Alternatively you can use the "disable frame-filter" command in GDB.
>>>
>>
>> Do I have third option? I don't want to uninstall glib-devel and don't
>> want to disable frame-filter. Can I exclude '/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb'
>> from processing? How GDB collects info on frame filters anyway? Do
>> they register somewhere?
>
> Frame filters, pretty printers etc all self register via auto
> loading.  In Fedora the auto-loading location is:
>
> /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/
>
> You will find the auto-load scripts for glib and others there.  You
> have many options, but this is not strictly a GDB issue so I can only
> advise:
>
> 1) File a bug with glib noting the error message is distracting and
> serves no purpose.
>
> 2) Edit the py file to delete the print.
>
> 3) Start GDB with gdb -ex "disable frame-filters all"
>
> 4) Edit the glib auto load files not to register the frame filter.
>

Yes, I like 4th option. Thanks!