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Re: Source directory trees not in build location
- From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi at cox dot net>
- To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:57:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: Source directory trees not in build location
- References: <17449.46602.392697.675583@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:17:46PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> We have a large source tree with many directories. When the system is
> built that tree appears in one place in the namespace; then the build
> results are saved in "good builds" directories, one per good build up
> to whatever we can save.
>
> The result is that source files are not where they were at build time.
>
> GDB can handle this on a per-directory basis with the "directory"
> command, but when you have on the order of a hundred directories that
> is excessively painful.
>
> I made a local patch to add a source path name rewriting rule. That
> allows a substring of the source path name to be replaced by some
> different substring. The current implementation is simplistic -- it
> allows exactly one substitution rule, and the matching is exact string
> match. It would be possible to allow multiple rules, and probably
> also fancier mechanisms like regexps. That wasn't necessary for our
> application.
>
> Is this of interest to the greater GDB?
>
> paul
>
Well, I'm not sure if that's necessary. Has anyone gone back to this
patch http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-10/msg00092.html?
Although, your solution seems really nice too.
Bob Rossi