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Re: [cancel] [patch] More suggestive error_is_running message
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:45:22 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> In any case, as I said, I don't have a strong opinion. I know that
> we want to both have concise error messages, while at the same time
> making GDB more explanatory on some confusing or tricky situations.
> This is a real conundrum.
In general GDB should always suggest possible solutions to a problem.
Stating just the problem may not be enough for the user.
This is like GDB says just "(no debugging symbols found)" but Fedora GDB says
also:
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install bc-1.06.95-3.fc15.x86_64
considered good in:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-April/165756.html
This is why I tried to suggest (one of) a possible solutions to the problem,
but it somehow did not go in, maintaining all these messages downstream is
expensive.
Regards,
Jan