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Sun Studio 12: Debugging a Program With dbx

Using a Custom Wrapper That Accepts Command-Line Options

The following wrapper script (xyz) sets a few environment variables and accepts command line options:


#!/bin/sh
CPATH=/mydir/myclass:/mydir/myjar.jar; export CPATH
JARGS="-verbose:gc -verbose:jni -DXYZ=/mydir/xyz"
ARGS=
while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
    case "$1" in
        -userdir) shift; if [ $# -gt 0 ]
; then userdir=$1; fi;;
        -J*) jopt=`expr $1 : ’-J<.*>’`
; JARGS="$JARGS ’$jopt’";;
        *) ARGS="$ARGS ’$1’" ;;
    esac
    shift
done
java $JARGS -cp $CPATH $ARGS

This script accepts some command line options for the JVM software and the user application. For wrapper scripts of this form, you would set the jvm_invocation environment variable and start dbx as follows:


% jvm_invocation="xyz -J-Xdebug -Jany other java options"
% dbx myclass.class -Dide=visual