bash debugger

dtw · 2005-01-18 08:12:54

i built this as i wanted to debug my shell scripts (natch)

first you have to patch and rebuild bash, i also used the stock Arch patch and PKGBUILD for this. However, i am unclear on all the provides, replaces and conflicts crap - how the hell do you set these right so it replaces a core pkg without causing loads of errors and forcing you to use -Sfd?

# Contributor: dibblethewrecker dibblethewrecker.at.jiwe.dot.org
pkgname=bash-debug
pkgver=3.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The GNU Bourne Again shell, rebuilt with debugger support"
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html"
license=""
backup=(etc/profile)
depends=('glibc' 'readline')
conflicts=('bash')
replaces=('bash')
provides=('bash')
install=
source=(ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.0.tar.gz profile 
        bash-history.patch http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bashdb/bashdb-3.00-0.01.tar.gz)
md5sums=('26c4d642e29b3533d8d754995bc277b3' '719b60711ee609850277bd0848516136'
         '7108b64d6b21b74764a602e142ca6b2c' '7f96a4cb9c9e124e19b20cba852bbbea')

build() {
  # build bash built as for arch + bashdb patch
  cd $startdir/src/bash-3.0
  patch -Np1 -i ../bash-history.patch || return 1
  patch -Np1 -i ../bashdb-3.00-0.01/patch/bash-3.00.patch
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curses --enable-readline --enable-debugger
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
  mv $startdir/pkg/usr/bin $startdir/pkg/bin
  # we don't want bashbug
  rm -f $startdir/pkg/bin/bashbug
  rm -f $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man1/bashbug.1
  install -D -m644 ../profile $startdir/pkg/etc/profile
  ln -sf bash $startdir/pkg/bin/sh
}

and then this is the debugger itself - this one is a bit hacky as the configure is absolutely useless!

# Contributor: dibblethewrecker dibblethewrecker.at.jiwe.dot.org
pkgname=bashdb
pkgver=3.00
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc=""
url="http://bashdb.sourceforge.net"
license=""
backup=(etc/profile)
makedepends=('bash-debug' 'texinfo')
depends=('glibc' 'readline' 'bash-debug')
source=(http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bashdb/$pkgname-$pkgver-0.01.tar.gz)
md5sums=('7f96a4cb9c9e124e19b20cba852bbbea')

build() {
  # build bashdb
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver-0.01
  # configure is PATHETIC but we'll run it anyway!
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  # some really crappy hacks to get compile to finish!
  cat ./Makefile | sed "s|PKGDATADIR = /usr/local/lib/bashdb|PKGDATADIR = $startdir/pkg/usr/share/bashdb|g" >./Makefile.new && mv ./Makefile.new ./Makefile
  cat ./Makefile | sed "s|/usr/local/lib/bashdb|$startdir/pkg/usr/share/bashdb|g" >./Makefile.new && mv ./Makefile.new ./Makefile
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
  # make the symlink that configure can't make for us!
  ln -sf dbg-main.inc $startdir/pkg/usr/share/bashdb/bashdb-main.inc
}

i haven't actually figured out how to use it - i have seen it running in emacs - which appears to make more user friendly but i have never used emacs

EDIT: looks like ddd is the way to go with it - it was ddd i saw not emacs!

dtw · 2005-01-25 12:06:40

um - i couldn't really get this to work and the recompiled bash was messing things up - any suggestions? also ddd couldn't even find the debugger

Arch Linux

#1 2005-01-18 08:12:54

bash debugger

#2 2005-01-25 12:06:40

Re: bash debugger

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