Re: [PATCH 1/3] Copy gdb-gdb.py to build dir

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>]

On 2018-06-15 05:27 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> I have thought for a long time how nice it would be to have cool pretty
> printers for GDB's internal types.  Well, turns out there are few
> already in gdb-gdb.py!  Unfortunately, if you build GDB outside of the
> source directory, that file never gets loaded.  top-gdb will look for a
> file called
> 
>   ../path/to/build/gdb/gdb-gdb.py
> 
> but that file is in the source directory at
> 
>   ../path/to/src/gdb/gdb-gdb.py
> 
> This patch makes it so we copy it to the build directory, just like we
> do for gdb-gdb.gdb.  With this, I can at least see the file getting
> automatically loaded:
> 
> (top-gdb) info pretty-printer
> global pretty-printers:
>   builtin
>     mpx_bound128
>   objfile /home/emaisin/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb pretty-printers:
>   type_lookup_function
> 
> I noticed that running "make" didn't re-generate gdb-gdb.py from
> gdb-gdb.py.in.  That's because it's copied when running the configure
> script and that's it.  I added a rule in the Makefile for that (and for
> gdb-gdb.gdb too) and added them as a dependency to the "all" target.

I pushed these.

Simon