Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

[...]

> but as soon as something breaks, you are thrown into the deep end,
> having to dissect logs, bisect commit ranges, learn strace, gdb (which
> still doesn't work well on Guix)

Hm?  Why GDB on Guix may be sometimes more challenging than say, on
Fedora, I only know of one problem, that is related to grafts (see: #48907).

For running binaries wrapped in shell script, I have this 'run-gdb'
wrapper which reads:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/usr/bin/env bash

wrapper=$(cat $(which $1))
shift
. <(echo "$wrapper" | grep ^export)
binary=$(echo "$wrapper" | grep ^exec | grep -o -E '/gnu/store[^"]*')
gdb --args "$binary" "$@"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Hope that helps,

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Thanks,
Maxim