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Re: [RFA] Look for system.gdbinit in specified --data-directory
> 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? 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.