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

[rafael ff1]

2012/5/3 Rodrigo Rivas <rodrigorivascosta at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I guess it should be 'gcc'. (run 'pacman -Qo <file>' to find which
package owns <file>)

Rafael