Re: How to use shell environment variable in GDB?

["Weihua JIANG" <weihua dot jiang at gmail dot com>]

Does gdb support custom command? If so, I can define the 3 commands
you mentioned as  one custom command.

Thanks
Weihua

2007/6/12, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:00:02PM +0800, Weihua JIANG wrote:
> > E.g. I have a shell environment variable CSR which points to a deep
> > directory. Now I hope to load the executable file using below command:
> >         file  $CSR/bin/aaa
> > But, since GDB can't recognize this environment variable, it can't
> > load the executable file.
> >
> > How can I use BASH environment variable in GDB?
>
> This is not supported.  You might be able to use this hack:
>
>   shell echo file $CSR/bin/aaa > tmp.scr
>   source tmp.scr
>   shell rm tmp.scr
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery