On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:25:27AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Package: gdb
> Version: 6.6.dfsg.90.20070912-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> I was able to use gdb to debug amsn (a wish script) by doing:
>
> gdb --args /usr/bin/wish8.4 /usr/bin/amsn
>
> Could gdb be modified to have the capability to do:
>
> gdb /usr/bin/amsn
>
> given that /usr/bin/amsn is a script that starts with:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # \
> exec wish $0
It's possible but unlikely. It's a fair amount of work and easy to do
by hand (you did it the right way).
The two parts are:
- Recognize #! files and parse their start lines to open the correct
executable file.
- Trace across execve since the executable is initially bash here.
Exec debugging will probably happen sometime in the next few years. I
don't know about #! support though.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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