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undoio / delve

Fork of go-delve debugger with UndoDB support.
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Hard for users to get Undo backend working #31

Open gareth-rees opened 2 years ago

gareth-rees commented 2 years ago

The Undo backend relies on the udbserver executable (for example, udbserver_x64) being on the path, but this does not happen if you download UDB and run make install, because the installer only puts symlinks to live-record and udb into the bin/ installation directory, leaving the other files in lib/udb-6.7.1/ or wherever.

Possible solutions are:

  1. Document what users need to do to get it working.
  2. Update UDB's make install so that it puts symlinks to the udbserver executables into the bin/ installation directory.
  3. Deduce the lib/udb-6.7.1/ directory by using the Go equivalent of dirname $(readlink $(which live-record)).
chimicus commented 2 years ago

I believe that we should do both 1 and 3: I wouldn't touch make install for the main product as this specific issue affects only one integration, not the whole product.