Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] .gdbinit: load QEMU sub-commands when gdb starts

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:45:56AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 03:17:28PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> > How would it work for out-of-tree builds?
> 
> ./.gdbinit assumes your current working directory is the root of the
> QEMU source tree.  If gdb is launched outside this directory then
> nothing will happen (e.g. from arm-softmmu/ or from an out-of-tree
> build).
> 
> I'm not sure if there is a simple way of making ./.gdbinit work from
> out-of-tree build directories.

Just add a Makefile rule, as a pre-requisite of qemu system arch
build, that symlinks $srcdir/.gdbinit into $builddir, or something
like that.


Regards,
Daniel
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