Announcing PathDB

Rayson Ho raysonlogin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 9 21:42:04 UTC 2010


Related to debuggers... just saw the LLDB (from the LLVM project)
announcement today:

http://lldb.llvm.org/

All of the code in the LLDB project is available under the standard
LLVM License, an open source "BSD-style" license.

Rayson




2010/6/1 "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>:
> Ed Maste wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 07:30:41PM +0700, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core software
>>> technology and thought the BSD community might be interested in PathDB.
>>>  Months ago we gave a few FBSD developers private access to the source, but
>>> never received any feedback.  Now we're asking more people to please test
>>> and tell us what you think.
>>>
>>
>> Very intereresting.  I have an interest in seeing a BSD-licensed
>> compelling replacement for GDB.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Source
>>> git clone git://git.pathscale.com/path64/debugger.git
>>>
>>
>> I had a look at this, but it does not seem to be ready to build
>> standalone:
>>
>> - it wants hg installed?
>> - it is expecting directories like ../buildmeister to exist
>>
>> Does it depend on infrastructure / libs outside of debugger/src, or
>> should it be possible to build it in isolation?
>>
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> I'm answering this same question quite a bit in private and hope you don't
> mind me adding the list on cc. (I hope those on the list don't mind as well)
>
> It currently doens't build on any BSD, but some of these patches below will
> help get you more progress
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/pdb-g++.diff
> http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/readline.cc.diff
> http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/pathscale.diff  # For hg to git
> http://pastie.org/private/cninatdq83krfy9dxagfnw  # For gcc-4.1+ build
> support
>
> Jörg Sonnenberger has identified some areas we need to abstract which will
> get things more portable.  I'm trying to get someone who is familiar with
> the codebase to do this and report back once progress has been made.
>
> A few other people interested in the project have showed up in #pathscale -
> irc.freenode.net if you're interested in more specifics.
>
> Thanks
>
> ./C
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