GDB not detecting GLib auto-load python scripts

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Following this article, GDB is installed in the same prefix as glib (I'm using official distro packages. However, when I run info auto-load python-scripts, I get No auto-load scripts. I have enable python auto-loading, and it looks like the scripts are installed correctly:

/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/
└── usr
    └── lib
        ├── libglib-2.0.so.0.8400.2-gdb.py
        ├── libgobject-2.0.so.0.8400.2-gdb.py
        ├── libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.2602.0-gdb.py
        ├── libisl.so.23.4.0-gdb.py
        └── libstdc++.so.6.0.34-gdb.py

You should check show auto-load safe-path and show configuration. Hopefully the auto-load safe-path includes something like $datadir/auto-load, the $datadir can be seen in the show configuration output as --with-gdb-datadir=.... With luck your data directory will be /usr/share/gdb. If that all looks good then you can do set debug auto-load on and restart your inferior, there will be a lot of output as GDB tried to find files to auto-load, but if you go through it you'll hopefully see what GDB is/isn't trying to load. — Andrew
– Andrew, Commented Jun 9 at 9:48

expoodo · Accepted Answer · 2025-06-29 01:07:15Z

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Fixed it by running a program linked with GLIB which had debug symbols

answered Jun 29 at 1:07

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