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Hi, On Sep 24, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Here's yet another alternative: gdb already tries to locate >> data-directory in $BUILDDIR/share/gdb as part of the relocation logic; >> we can install a symlink there that points to >> $BUILDDIR/gdb/data-directory, or make a copy for platforms that don't >> support symlinks. > > Sounds like an interesting idea. We could even do a local install > of the share directory with $BUILDDIR as the prefix, to avoid > duplicating the code, if that helps. But people might complain that > this steps is unnecessary for those who always do an install after > build. I think it's sufficiently negligible to be OK, personally. Here's a first attempt at this. It's quite simple, but it assumes that $GDB_DATADIR and/or $bindir aren't too unusual. Yit September 24, 2012
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