Bug 651232

Summary:	Use --with-system-gdbinit
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	jan.kratochvil, pmuldoon, sergiodj, spoyarek
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	gdb-7.2.50.20101117-4.fc15	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2010-12-27 04:53:14 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	665799

Description Jan Kratochvil 2010-11-09 02:29:44 UTC

There is currently no system-wide /etc/gdbinit.
Create one (`/etc/gdbrc' ?).
Try to provide also `/etc/gdbrc.d', if possible with GDB canned commands.

Comment 1 Jan Kratochvil 2010-12-27 04:53:14 UTC

/etc/gdbinit:
# System-wide GDB initialization file.

# FIXME: provide a wildcard.
source /etc/gdbinit.d/gdb-heap.py


Debian uses:
/etc/gdb/gdbinit

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2010-12-28 17:46:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> There is currently no system-wide /etc/gdbinit.

It indeed showed up in gdb-7.2.50.20101117-4.fc15 with a content like in comment #1.  Only there is no /etc/gdbinit.d/gdb-heap.py so this is not doing very much. Is this really intended that way?

Comment 3 Jan Kratochvil 2010-12-28 18:01:57 UTC

Yes, it is.  If there isn't the comment
  FIXME: provide a wildcard.
there could be instead the correct way:
  source /etc/gdbinit.d/*
like
  -c /etc/prelink.conf.d/*.conf
exists in /etc/prelink.conf and other similar files.

/etc/gdbinit.d/gdb-heap.py is not a problem as gdbinit is run in non-interactive (from_tty == 0) mode and thus any errors reading it are ignored.

One day I can implement wildcards for `source' but so far at least the 3rd party packages can be packaged correctly (with proper explicit entry for each of them).