Re: Development Environments for gtkmm

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Andreas Volz wrote:
> Am Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:32:26 -0500 schrieb José Alburquerque:
>   
> > You know, by using a "set substitute-path <library-source-path> 
> > <installed-source-path>" in the $HOME/.gdbinit file it is possible to 
> > install the library source somewhere and have gdb replace the path
> > where the library's debug info says the source should be with where
> > you've installed the library's source.
> >
> > On my system, for example, by using the 'strings' command, I'm able
> > to see that glibmm's debug info says that the source should be found
> > in "/build/buildd/glibmm2.4-2.14.2/".  I actually installed glibmm's
> > source in "/usr/src/glibmm2.4-2.14.2".  So by including the line "set 
> > substitute-path /build/buildd /usr/src" in ~/.gdbinit gdb has no
> > problem finding glibmm's source.
> >
> > This works with all debuggers (even nemiver) as long as ~/.gdbinit is 
> > processed by gdb when it starts up. :-)
> >     
>
> Thanks for that info, I didn't know that.
>
>   
It's helped me debugging several programs.  Admittedly, I use several 
debuggers (including kdbg at times), but this option is very useful 
debugging libraries.

-Jose