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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote: >> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:29:07 -0800 >> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com> >> Cc: palves@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> >> When I wrote: >> >> >> Remember, this only happens *if* system.gdbinit lives somewhere >> >> underneath data-directory. >> >> pretend I said: >> >> Remember, this only happens *if* the configured location of >> system.gdbinit (the value of --with-system-gdbinit) is in the >> configured location of data-directory (the value of >> --with-gdb-datadir). > > Ah, okay, sorry for my misunderstanding. > > But why "pretend"? Why not say this explicitly? That "pretend" comment was referring to text in the prose of an email message, not anything intended to appear in a patch. Yikes. > Like this, for > example: > > If the configured location of system.gdbinit file (as given by the > --with-system-gdbinit option at configure time) is in the > data-directory (as specified by --with-gdb-datadir at configure > time) or in one of its subdirectories, then GDB will look for the > system-wide init file in the directory specified by the > --data-directory command-line option. Ok to check in? 2012-11-15 Doug Evans <dje@google.com> * main.c (gdb_datadir_provided): New static global. (get_init_files): If --data-directory is provided, and SYSTEM_GDBINIT lives in data-directory, look for it there. * NEWS: Mention it. doc/ * gdb.texinfo (System-wide configuration): If the system-wide init file lives in the data-directory, and --data-directory is provided, look for it there.
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