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Re: python help(gdb) doesn't work in my local build.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>
Cc: "gdb\ at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:52:15 -0700
Subject: Re: python help(gdb) doesn't work in my local build.
References: <4D7A7BCA.5000408@vmware.com> <m3r5ad4cjm.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4D7A8E1B.6050600@vmware.com>

Tom> Maybe this is fixable.  Or you could make install.

Michael> How would you get it to work from your build tree?

Actually, it works fine for me.

I guess I would debug the startup code in python.c to see why it isn't
working for you.  See _initialize_python, there is a comment about
data-directory, which is where the runtime stuff gets copied and used
for in-tree runs.

Tom

References:
- python help(gdb) doesn't work in my local build.
  - From: Michael Snyder
- Re: python help(gdb) doesn't work in my local build.
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: python help(gdb) doesn't work in my local build.
  - From: Michael Snyder

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