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. :)
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