Vscode debug

[elliotthenne]

added relevant files needed to use the VSCode debugger while running the speed tester nf

[twood02]

We should fix this name since this doesn't actually build the code

[elliotthenne]

I changed it to gcc-9 - Debug speed tester

[twood02]

We either need to fix this so it works and can compile the code or delete it

[elliotthenne]

Not sure what you mean. Are you referring to the entire file or those 3 lines?

[twood02]

I mean this tasks section. You can just delete it

[twood02]

We should have a header comment explaining what this file is for

[elliotthenne]

Not sure I entirely understand the purpose of this file. I think it allows administrator privileges for gdb, which is why the pkexec command is used, but I don't think I can succinctly summarize it in a comment

[twood02]

Here is a suggestion:

Suggested change

	pkexec /usr/bin/gdb "$@"
	# This is a wrapper script for GDB that allows it to run as root. This is necessary if you are calling
	# gdb from an IDE like VS Code that by itself does not run as root.
	# NOTE: In some cases we have found that you must use `sudo` instead of `pkexec` here.
	pkexec /usr/bin/gdb "$@"

We will need to test this on a few different setups to understand whether to use sudo or pkexec. My memory is that when we tried to use this on Noah's machine it only worked with sudo, but on yours you needed pkexec. We will want to set this to whichever is needed on CloudLab since it is our "standard" platform.

[twood02]

A few suggestions

[twood02]

I mean this tasks section. You can just delete it

[twood02]

Here is a suggestion:

Suggested change

	pkexec /usr/bin/gdb "$@"
	# This is a wrapper script for GDB that allows it to run as root. This is necessary if you are calling
	# gdb from an IDE like VS Code that by itself does not run as root.
	# NOTE: In some cases we have found that you must use `sudo` instead of `pkexec` here.
	pkexec /usr/bin/gdb "$@"

We will need to test this on a few different setups to understand whether to use sudo or pkexec. My memory is that when we tried to use this on Noah's machine it only worked with sudo, but on yours you needed pkexec. We will want to set this to whichever is needed on CloudLab since it is our "standard" platform.

[twood02]

297 VSCode Debugger tools

[NoahChinitz]

When I used your gdb.sh file I needed to change it to be sudo /usr/bin/gdb "$@" instead of pkexec /usr/bin/gdb "$@".