From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>,
Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>,
buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 3/3] toolchain: mark sysroot as 'safe' path for gdb auto-load
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 23:23:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210725232311.539551e7@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210608151840.20917-4-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:18:39 +0200
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
>
> gdb can automatically load certain files as described in [1]. Such files
> could install pretty-printers for complex data structures.
>
> libstdcxx (C++ standard library) provided by gcc, is one example of a
> library for which such auto-load file is available. But there are other
> examples too, like libglib2.
>
> However, gdb will only auto-load files if the file is located in one of the
> locations treated as 'safe'. The Buildroot sysroot is not by default in that
> list.
>
> Provide a better debugging experience by adding the sysroot to the 'safe'
> list, via the gdbinit file prepared by Buildroot.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/objfile_002dgdbdotext-file.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
> ---
> toolchain/helpers.mk | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied to master, thanks.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-08 15:18 [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 0/3] Fix gdb pretty printers for libstdcxx Thomas De Schampheleire
2021-06-08 15:18 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 1/3] package/gdb: fix gdb 9.2 segfault with Python 3.9 support Thomas De Schampheleire
2021-07-25 21:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-08-05 11:10 ` Peter Korsgaard
2021-06-08 15:18 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 2/3] toolchain/toolchain-external: fixup gdb pretty-printer loader for libstdcxx Thomas De Schampheleire
2021-07-25 21:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-06-08 15:18 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 3/3] toolchain: mark sysroot as 'safe' path for gdb auto-load Thomas De Schampheleire
2021-07-25 21:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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