First off, the fact that git does something at the user-interface level seems rather an argument against doing it that for...
But also, in git's case it makes some sense to have global configurations, for instance to implement policies for everybody on a team, or something like that. But I don't see that strong a use case for that for lldb. Plus, the particular instance seems another counter-argument, since as I understand it the Hexagon init is going to change the behavior of lldb significantly. I would rather if that happen I know this is not vanilla lldb, because it is called "lldb-hex" or something... Jim > On Jan 28, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote: > > Personally I'm a big fan of this model. Sort of like what git does, where > you have different install files in different scopes, and it starts by > parsing the global config first, then the user-level config, then the local > config, overwriting values in the process. > > So in Ted's scenario, for example, maybe lldb could load ~/.lldbinit first, > then look in the same folder as the executable for a .lldbinit and load it > second. > > On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 11:21:13 AM Ted Woodward <ted.woodw...@codeaurora.org> > wrote: > I'm sorry; I wasn't clear. When I say "global", I mean "global to this > installation", not "global to the system". > > My idea was something like /inst/hexagon/Tools/bin/lldb would load > /inst/hexagon/Tools/bin/lldbinit. Another lldb installation, say > /inst/Xcode/bin/lldb, wouldn't see it, or be affected by it. > > -- > Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a > Linux Foundation Collaborative Project > > -----Original Message----- > From: jing...@apple.com [mailto:jing...@apple.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:12 PM > To: Ted Woodward > Cc: lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > Subject: Re: [lldb-dev] Global lldbinit file? > > This worries me a little bit. I install your Hexagon lldb, and that installs > a global lldbinit, which then starts affecting my use of the other lldb's I > happen to have on my system in ways that are not at all clear to me... That > doesn't seem like a good idea to me. > > gdb had a global configuration file in /etc/conf, and Apple's gdb > installation used it for a few things (this was actually done at NeXT and > NOT by me...) - mainly setting some common print variables. But this just > ended up causing more confusion than it was worth. It would have been better > to just bake these into the gdb driver we shipped... > > I would suggest distributing your lldb as lldb-hex or something like that, > and including a template .lldbinit-hex that folks could install, or making > your own driver that sets the options you want first. > > Jim > > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Ted Woodward <ted.woodw...@codeaurora.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > When LLDB launches, it will read ~/.lldbinit (and possibly other variants > > of that, like ~/.lldbinit-Xcode). > > > > In my Hexagon LLDB installation, I want LLDB to always load a global > > lldbinit file. Currently I do this by having lldb be a wrapper script that > > calls lldb with –o, but I’d like to eliminate the wrapper script, since > > wrapper batch files cause problems with ctrl-c handling on Windows. I use > > this to load a python file with utilities in it, like one to get the TLB > > info from the target. It sends a qXfer command to the remote GDB server to > > download an XML file, parses it, and prints the info from it. These > > utilities need to load for all users. > > > > Do we have a global lldbinit file, or should I add code to load > > Host::GetProgramFileSpec()/lldbinit? > > > > -- > > Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. > > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a > > Linux Foundation Collaborative Project > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lldb-dev mailing list > > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
