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Re: [RFA, doc RFA] Don't install gdb.PYTHONDIR if -nx
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:50:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA, doc RFA] Don't install gdb.PYTHONDIR if -nx
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:43:02 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> Eli, can I have a doc RFA.
Sure.
> +* New command line options
> +
> +-data-directory DIR Specify DIR as the "data-directory".
> +
How about saying what is this directory good for?
> +@item -data-directory @var{directory}
> +@cindex @code{--data-directory}
> +Run @value{GDBN} using @var{directory} as its data-directory.
> +The data-directory is where @value{GDBN} searches for its
> +auxiliary files.
Same here: what "auxiliary files" are those? Without knowing that,
there's no chance users will benefit from this option.
Thanks.