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On 2017-06-13 16:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
FWIW, I always configure GDB to use a version-specific data-directory, because I leave old GDB versions (renamed) on my system, so I could still use them after installing a new version. E.g., if the new version turns out to have a bug. I would actually be happier if we changed our installation scripts to do that by default, because the scripts are almost never backward-compatible IME.
Can you give more details on what you think could/should be done by default?
For such a use case, I would compile each gdb with a separate prefix (e.g. --prefix=/opt/gdb/<version>), which would give each install its own data directory. So from my point of view, the "feature" is pretty well-covered.
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