searching for source directories in GDB

Asked 2009-07-09T10:51:50.730

How do I tell GDB in *nix to search for source files inside a single directory recursively? For example:

if there are some different building blocks in one module.
a is parent directory for b, c, d where b,c,d are child directories.
source files are distributed in b,c,b.

I would need to specify to GDB that all the source files are located in 'a'(parent directory) which GDB should use as a reference and search for source files recursively while debugging a program.

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Or you can do something like this, for debugging program prog with source in directory srcdir:

gdb `find srcdir -type d -printf '-d %p '` prog

I think it's a more direct answer to your question. Also useful if your executable doesn't contain the compilation directories and/or you don't have version 6.6+ of gdb.

answered 2009-11-18T15:17:55.033

searching for source directories in GDB

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