Remove sage-gdb-commands from src/bin

[mkoeppe]

(from #33625)

Critical because this file is not compatible with editable installs (setup.py develop), see #31049

CC: @tornaria @jhpalmieri @kiwifb @dimpase

Component: scripts

Author: Matthias Koeppe

Branch: d24b928

Reviewer: John Palmieri

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33627

[mkoeppe]

Branch: u/mkoeppe/move_sage_gdb_commands_out_of_src_bin

[mkoeppe]

Commit: a9a2fde

[mkoeppe]

Author: Matthias Koeppe

[mkoeppe]

New commits:

e0c9408	Move sage-gdb-commands from src/bin to src/sage/doctest
a9a2fde	src/sage/doctest/control.py: Get sage-gdb-commands with importlib.resources

[kiwifb]

comment:6

Would sage-gdb-commands not be in a better location in ext_data? It is not a function that is specific to doctests. That's my only reaction so far to that change, but I wouldn't push for the move too strongly if you tell me that it is too hard.

[mkoeppe]

comment:7

Replying to @kiwifb:

Would sage-gdb-commands not be in a better location in ext_data? It is not a function that is specific to doctests.

The purpose of this file is not documented, and it is only used there

[kiwifb]

comment:8

I just looked at the content of the file for the first time in some years.

r

may be we can just get rid of it if it is the only place it is used. And that's what the gdb manual has to say about what it does https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Starting.html#Starting

[mkoeppe]

comment:9

In any case, ext_data is an outdated design and I'd rather not add to it.

[jhpalmieri]

comment:10

François asks a good question about the purpose of this file. Could we instead just have a variable SAGE_GDB_COMMANDS defined as 'r' in doctest/control.py? Having a file which contains a single character seems a little ridiculous.

[mkoeppe]

comment:11

The name of the file is passed to gdb, it's a list of commands to execute upon starting. Of course we could also generate this file as a temporary file, but I don't think that's a cleaner design

[kiwifb]

comment:12

Yes, it is all coming back to me now. I guess it is meant to be clever. In any case it is the design we have to deal with and if it is only used from the dosctest folder, then yes it should live there.

[mkoeppe]

comment:13

Actually the file is also used in src/bin/sage. I missed it because it's written as "${SELF}-gdb-commands"

[sagetrac-git]

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

6cc5205

src/sage/doctest/control.py: When invoking gdb, use sys.executable

[sagetrac-git]

Changed commit from a9a2fde to 6cc5205

[mkoeppe]

comment:15

With recent gdb versions we can just use this option instead and get rid of the command file altogether

  --eval-command=COMMAND, -ex
		     Execute a single GDB command.

[sagetrac-git]

Changed commit from 6cc5205 to 9d2c48f

[sagetrac-git]

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:

9d2c48f

src/bin/sage, src/sage/doctest/control.py: Eliminate use of sage-gdb-commands

[jhpalmieri]

comment:22

What's the advantage to explicitly including python (a.k.a. sys.executable) in

exec gdb --eval-command="run" --args ...python... sage-runtests --serial --timeout=0 hello_world.py

[mkoeppe]

comment:23

Without this change it wasn't working for me at all (on macOS): I got

"/Users/mkoeppe/s/sage/sage-rebasing/src/bin/sage-runtests": not in executable format: file format not recognized

[jhpalmieri]

comment:24

I can't get it to work on OS X either way. The SPKG doesn't build for me ("C compiler cannot create executables" because "ld: library not found for -ltinfo"). If I run brew install gdb, then I get complaints about things not being codesigned. Anyway, with this branch things fail a bit better than with develop, and the changes make sense to me. Comments from anyone else?

[mkoeppe]

comment:25

Yes, the gdb SPKG is too old (see #30158). I have also not done the codesigning dance with the homebrew gdb this time to try out whether it really works on macOS

[dimpase]

comment:26

isn't gdb pretty much useless with macOS clang, and one should use lldb instead?

[mkoeppe]

comment:27

Hence #31568

[jhpalmieri]

comment:28

Let's merge this.

[jhpalmieri]

Reviewer: John Palmieri

[mkoeppe]

comment:29

Thanks!

[vbraun]

Changed branch from u/mkoeppe/move_sage_gdb_commands_out_of_src_bin to d24b928

[jhpalmieri]

comment:31

By the way, we missed an example in developer/doctesting.rst that mentions sage-gdb-commands. See #34295 for a follow-up.

[jhpalmieri]

Changed commit from d24b928 to none