235615 - Ease mozilla debugging by allowing debugger scripts to be run

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[jim_nance]

When mozilla is run with the -g option, it brings up the browser in the debugger.
As there are ususally several commands which need to be given to the debugger,
I find it convienent to put them into a script.  The attached patch modifies
the run-mozilla.sh script so that if the -g option is present and a file named
mozillascript exists in the current directory, the debugger will execute the
commands in mozillascript.

While this only eleminates the need to type:
   source mozillascript
into the gdb window, I find it quite useful.

Comment 1

[jim_nance]

Attachment: Patch to allow debugger to automatically source scripts

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This looks nice to me... blizzard, dbaron?

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Is it not possible to do these things in a .gdbinit (perhaps even conditional on
the program being debugged, although I'm not sure how one would do that)?

Comment 4

[jim_nance]

I dont know if it is or not.  I do not know the gdb syntax well enough to tell.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
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If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 6

[teresa wilkolak]

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Comment 7

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