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Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.24-9ubuntu2.2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The GNU libc source package has a set of GDB pretty-printer macros written in Python, which are of immense use when debugging code with GDB. In particular there are a suite of pretty-printer macros for the pthread library that display the contents of mutexes, condition variables, etc. in a readable way.

After building the GNU libc package they can be found for example:

$srcdir/nptl/nptl-printers.py
$objdir/nptl/nptl_lock_constants.py

(both are needed). The lock_constants file is generated during the build process.

It would be extremely useful if these files could be included in the dev package, somewhere, so that we could take advantage of them while debugging.



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Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on:
ii libc-dev-bin 2.24-9ubuntu2.2
ii libc6 2.24-9ubuntu2.2
ii linux-libc-dev 4.10.0-26.30

libc6-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libc6-dev suggests:
ii glibc-doc 2.24-9ubuntu2.2
ii manpages-dev 4.09-2

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control: notfound -1 2.24-9ubuntu2.2
control: found -1 2.25-0experimental0

On 2017-07-13 13:14, Paul Smith wrote:

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.24-9ubuntu2.2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The GNU libc source package has a set of GDB pretty-printer macros written in Python, which are of immense use when debugging code with GDB. In particular there are a suite of pretty-printer macros for the pthread library that display
the contents of mutexes, condition variables, etc. in a readable way.

After building the GNU libc package they can be found for example:

$srcdir/nptl/nptl-printers.py
$objdir/nptl/nptl_lock_constants.py

(both are needed). The lock_constants file is generated during the build process.

It would be extremely useful if these files could be included in the dev package, somewhere, so that we could take advantage of them while debugging.

This support is not available in glibc 2.24. It has been added in glibc
2.25 that is currently being packaged.

Aurelien

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