Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:23:35 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Subject: Re: /usr/src/sys/scripts? Message-ID: <XFMail.011019082335.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011019101751.D60412@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 19-Oct-01 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 18 October 2001 at 14:33:27 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 18-Oct-01 Nate Williams wrote: >>>>> BSD/OS has a directory /usr/src/sys/scripts which contains macros for >>>>> kernel debugging. I have a number of macros here that I've >>>>> accumulated over time, and I'd like to commit them. I'd also like to >>>>> modify config(8) to install a .gdbinit in the kernel build directory >>>>> if debugging has been specified; the .gdbinit would load macros from >>>>> ../../scripts in order to help with kernel debugging. >>>> >>>> Wouldn't /var/crash be the logical place for .gdbinit? >>> >>> Yes, and no. Yes because that's where it may be useful, and no because >>> it's a place for crashdumps, not for analyzing crashdumps. >>> >>> Most folks will probably not analyze the crashdumps, or they will copy >>> them off somewhere else so they can free up /var/crash for the next >>> crashdump, so I'd say stick .gdbinit somewhere else. >> >> I actually put .gdbinit* in my home directory and run gdb from the compile >> dir >> like so: >> >> cd /some/src/tree/sys/${ARCH}/compile/FOO >> gdb -k kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.XX > > But that's because you never debug userland programs :-) Hrm.. not often these days, sure enough. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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