attaching pathdb

[Harald Pfeiffer]

Works now, thanks!

Barry Smith wrote:
>
>   Ahh yes, found the offensive code and it is offensive. In
> src/sys/error/adebug.c in PetscSetDebuggerFromString() is
> a horrible list of choices. We should fix this code to be more
> general. Anyway, you can just add another entry for pathdb
> and do make lib shared in that directory.
>
>   Please let us know if this does not resolve the problem,
>
>    Barry
>
> This will be fixed in our next 2.3.1 patch.
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Harald Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> -start_in_debugger pathdb  brings up gdb?! Ditto with noxterm.
>>
>> Harald
>>
>>
>> Barry Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>   Then it should "just work", what happens when you run
>>> with -start_in_debugger noxterm,pathdb or
>>> -start_in_debugger pathdb? Please send all output from
>>> the error.
>>>
>>>    Thanks
>>>
>>>     Barry
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Harald Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Barry,
>>>>
>>>> the usage seems to be similar or even identical to gdb:
>>>>
>>>> Output of pathdb -help:
>>>>>  usage: pathdb [option...] [program [core|pid]]
>>>>
>>>> The man page is online under 
>>>> http://www.pathscale.com/docs/pathdb.html,
>>>> and there is also the full user guidem 
>>>> http://www.pathscale.com/docs/PathDB_UserGuide.pdf (look at page 29).
>>>>
>>>> Harald
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Barry Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Harald,
>>>>>
>>>>>    We need to know the command line arguments for pathdb to attach
>>>>> properly (each debugger is a little different, hence the hardwiring).
>>>>> Please send us the pathdb man page and all the output when you
>>>>> run it with -help and we'll make a tenative patch for you to try.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Barry
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Harald Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to use the pathscale debugger, pathdb, when debugging 
>>>>>> petsc-codes. However, petsc seems to have hardcoded the list of 
>>>>>> debuggers:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -on_error_attach_debugger [gdb,dbx,xxgdb,ups,noxterm]
>>>>>>      start the debugger in new xterm
>>>>>> -start_in_debugger [gdb,dbx,xxgdb,ups,noxterm]
>>>>>>      start all processes in the debugger
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I go about doing this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Harald
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

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