Sorry Sergio I read you late!
Nice, indeed debugging symbols would be great in this context. The first/independent part of 68315 has already been merged, now it's time for discussion on how/when/with which process to get that one merged. I've pinged the other issue this morning, hopefully we can get a discussion going there! Cheers, Nicolas On 2025-04-24 23:33, Sergio Pastor Pérez wrote: > Nicolas Graves <ngra...@ngraves.fr> writes: >> Made some progress and I'll rework on the patches tonight. > > I'm looking forward to it! > >> Current workflow is the following : >> >> In a guix with v2 patches and current guix-local: >> cd /tmp >> mkdir -p hello >> cd hello >> guix local instantiate hello --> downloads and unpacks hello's source >> cd hello* >> guix local build hello --> builds locally and installs in ./out > > This is lovely. I made a rudimentary extension `guix develop`[1] which > was doing the unpacking you describe and generating a 'guix.scm' that > uses the unpacked sources as origin. I'm very interested in your > solution. > > The idea that I had with the extension, is that it would unpack the > sources and generate a 'guix.scm' with debugging symbols, then it would > setup a GDB script file to configure a session with source code > debugging with symbols[2]. I decided to wait for your proposal before > continuing implement anything. In the toy example I linked, the only > thing that happens is that it searches for ELF files in the output > derivation and tries to print the symbols that it finds using GDB. I > think it would be nice to not rely on GDB for that and use the > `system vm elf` and `system vm dwarf` guile modules. Andy Wingo has > a nice post using them[3] > > [1] https://codeberg.org/pastor/guix-develop > [2] > https://codeberg.org/pastor/guix-develop/src/commit/3aaa574849f676a0d6da563dbb11c175462cb62d/guix/extensions/develop.scm#L229 > [3] https://wingolog.org/archives/2014/01/19/elf-in-guile > >> This should work for any package except when there are patches or >> snippets, I'll work on fixing that too (probably the simplest is to drop >> the functionality since it's also done in guix local instantiate). >> >> I'll work on a v3 and clarify the situation for patches/snippets >> tonight. > > Great! > > Thanks for the update, have a good night. > > > Best regards, > Sergio. > -- Best regards, Nicolas Graves
