Re: attaching pathdb

[Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov>]

  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