Re: Building GDB 7.3.92 with MinGW

[asmwarrior <asmwarrior@gmail.com>]

On 2012-1-11 12:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:35:20 +0800
>> From: asmwarrior<asmwarrior@gmail.com>
>>
>> On 2012-1-11 5:23, Doug Evans wrote:
>>> For one, remembering to pass -data-directory is a pain.
>> This parameter does not work correctly under MinGW in the case that I would like gdb to automatically run the python script when it startup.
>>
>> Normally, my gdb is put in MinGW/bin, and the gdb's own python script is under:
>> MinGW\share\gdb\python\gdb\*.py
>>
>> I need to hard-code the code in gdb/main.c to set the data-directory value. (Because gdb is build from MSYS+MinGW, but it run normally on Windows shell without MSYS)
> Can you explain why the original code doesn't work as intended?  And
> what is MSYS have to do with that?
>
> Thanks.
Hi, I was originally open a discussion on the Codeblocks' forum

http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,15104.0.html

The major problem is:

gdb/main.c (setting the gdb's python folder) execute before we use data-directory to set the python path, so whether you set -data-directory, you always failed to find its own python script.

You can check my patch and see what I adjust the path, so gdb can find and run its own python script correctly.

This issue is that MSYS+autoconf system use different path scheme with normal mingw. But when you run gdb under normal mingw, you still have some internal variables which is MSYS style.

asmwarrior
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