Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:33:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: /usr/src/sys/scripts? Message-ID: <XFMail.011018143327.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15311.9266.464139.798092@nomad.yogotech.com>
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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
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