Re: [patch 2/2] Implement multi-component --with-auto-load-dir

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

Hi Jan,

> currently GDB has hard-coded GDB_DATADIR/auto-load for the auto-loaded
> scripts.  The problem is one may need more of such directories as you may have
> multiple package sets / packages on the same system in different
> subdirectories overriding each other in some order.
> 
> Therefore created 'set auto-load scripts-directory' for it.

I really do not understand what this new setting is about.  Can you
just give me a quick concrete example of what wouldn't work with
the current code, and how this gets solved by the new setting?

I was hoping at some point that this would allow us to have auto-loaded
scripts without having to have the same path structure in the auto-load
directory as in the executable (by that, I mean that if you are
debugging /work/build/gcc-feature-a/gcc/cc1, you don't need to have
cc1-gdb.gdb defined in your auto-load directory as
auto-load/work/build/gcc-feature-a/gcc/cc1-gdb.gdb. It'd just be
sufficient to have cc1-gdb.gdb defined in your scripts-directory.
But looking at the code, I don't think that this is what we are
talking about.

-- 
Joel