Re: Adding Python files to be autoloaded for a particular architecture

Joel Brobecker
2020-07-17T21:42:12Z

> This seems to be a suitable candidate for SYSTEM_GDBINIT_FILES. But if I
> simply add a file to `SYSTEM_GDBINIT_FILES` in
> `gdb/data-directory/Makefile.in`, and then configure with
>
> --with-system-gdbinit-dir=$pkgdatadir/system-gdbinit

You can try with --with-system-gdbinit=xxx instead.

> then all of the files are installed (there are already two existing files,
> `elinos.py` and `wrs-linux.py`) and loaded when gdb starts up. This causes
> errors, as `wrs-linux.py` in particular expects to find an environment
> variable which I have not set.

We can probably delete these two files, if no one else finds them useful
anymore. But I don't think you really want to use GDB's system-gdbinit
as a system-gdbinit-dir; generally speaking, my understand of the
directory provided in the GDB sources is that it's a collection of
files that are not necessarily meant to always be relevant.

--
Joel