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Re: Add support for the GDB Python Library
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:24:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: Add support for the GDB Python Library
- References: <1274918921-23200-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of the things that we still don't have in the FSF tree is a "GDB
> Python Library" - that is a collection of standard Python scripts that
> come with GDB. The idea is to help future contributions but setting
> things up so that it's easy to add new python-based commands/functions/
> features, etc.
>
> This is what this couple of patches provide:
> ?- Patch #1: Defines a pythondir where the GDB Python library is
> ? ?expected to be found, and enhances the GDB/python support to
> ? ?look for them there.
> ?- Path #2: is built on top of patch #1, and provides the first
> ? ?such python patch. ?We selected one form project archer that
> ? ?might be useful: pahole.py.
Is there a reason to not make pythondir be $(GDB_DATADIR)/python or some such?
[I'm not sure to what extent .pyc files are architecture independent.
Is that it?]