> -----Original Message----- > From: linuxtools-dev-boun...@eclipse.org > [mailto:linuxtools-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Otávio Pontes > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:44 PM > To: linuxtools-dev@eclipse.org >> Linux Tools developer discussions > Subject: [linuxtools-dev] Changing the PATH for execution of > linuxtools commands > > Hi, > Corey Ashford has start a discussion with me and Jeff Johnston in a > Valgrind bug about how we should change the location of the valgrind > command to be used by the valgrind plugin. And how we should > do that in > order to use the same approach in other plugins. (more information: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=353056) > The discussion started because Corey and I are developing a eclipse > based project that runs in a system with several toolchains > installed. > So we have more than one valgrind installed at the same system and we > want to provide a way for users to select which valgrind will > be used to > profile each project. And we also need to do that for other tools, as > gcov, gprof and oprofile. > We have agreed that the better way to do that is to create a Project > property and prepend it to path environment variable before > executing a > command, so the system will pick the binary we want to run.
In CDT, when we launch a debug session, the user may need to choose a different GDB than what is on the PATH. The way we do this is that we have a UI box in the launch configuration dialog that defaults to 'gdb' but that the user can change to the location she needs e.g., /home/user/bin/myOlderGDB I'm curious to know if this is something you considered? I think it would fit well in the Valgrind plugin launch UI and would make it move obvious to a user. Thanks Marc > This was > implemented and integrated into valgrind and it is available at the > branch 'change_path' in my github tree > (https://github.com/obusatto/linuxtools/tree/change_path). > I'm sending this in the mailing list because I intend to work in > integrating this in other plugins, so it is good to have the > opinion of > maintainers of other plugins. > > Thanks, > Otavio Pontes > _______________________________________________ > linuxtools-dev mailing list > linuxtools-dev@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev > _______________________________________________ linuxtools-dev mailing list linuxtools-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev
