Re: [Valgrind-users] hardcoded /usr/bin/gdb

[Philippe E. <ph...@wa...>]

Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Philippe Elie wrote:
> 
> 
>>>This works, but it would be better if the GDB variable was put into a .h
>>>file, so it's available everywhere -- that's better than having to feed it
>>>in to every file that needs it with -D.  This could be done by introducing
>>>eg. vg_skin.h.in, but that would be a pain, especially just for one
>>>variable.
>>
>>Yes, it's a better way but the trivial:
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> [snip]
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>>Not very elegant but the only way I found
> 
> 
> Hmm, pretty ugly... if that's the only way to do it, I can live with
> passing in the option using -D :)

But the dependencies problem ?

If the flags change you don't recompile the right
file. A user with two gdb version, can change $PATH
to select a different version and run configure; make
but he will not get the right gdb version.


regard,
Phil