Bug#868247: libc6-dev: Please include the GDB pretty-printer python macros for GNU libc in the libc6-dev package
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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers zesty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'zesty-updates'), (500, 'zesty-security'), (500, 'zesty'), (100, 'zesty-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-26-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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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