[arch-general] *-gdb.py files are misplaced

[Rodrigo Rivas]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 03/05/12 18:39, Rodrigo Rivas wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am debugging a C++ program with GDB and I want to use the nice Python
> > scripts for pretty-printing the STL types. But, alas, it does not work.
> >
> > This script is installed in "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/libstdc++.
> > so.6.0.17-gdb.py"  to handle the pretty printing of STL types.
> > But the fact is that GDB does not load it. Doing a quick "strace gdb
> > ./a.out" I find that it looks for the file in:
> >
> > /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.17-gdb.py
> >
> > Note the "usr/lib/" into the "auto-load" directory. (BTW, the GDB
> > documentation seem to say that it should read it from yet another
> > directory.)
> >
> > Right now I patched it by creating a few symbolic links into the
> > "auto-load" directory.
> >
> > I'd like to file a bug report, but I'm new to Arch Linux, so I'm asking
> for
> > advice:
> >
> > Should I file a bug report for each of the packages that install a file
> in
> > this directory? Also, I think that some of them may come this way from
> > upstream, but
> > Currently, I've detected the following packages that install files there:
> > glib2, isl and gcc
> >
> > Or should I file a bug into GDB itself?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
>
> Please file a single bug report and I will figure out exactly where the
> fix should be (gdb or the install location).
>

Ok, but to what package? gdb?
--
Rodrigo.