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Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory


Hi,

On Oct 6, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> But we have to make assumptions about other applications that are not under our control, that they do not use the same files, which I think is an assumption that we should avoid if possible (who knows what's out there).
> 
> How many other packages will have a file called doc/gdb.info or
> doc/gdbint.info in their build tree?  How many of them will have
> something called i386-cygwin-tdep.o or mi/mi-cmds.o?  I could find
> many more files whose probability to be in a non-GDB tree is exactly
> zero.
> 
> I think the problem you are afraid of doesn't exist.

I'm simply offering alternative solutions that work regardless of whether the problem exists or not, and in some cases, is much simpler to implement. Isn't that a good thing?

Yit
October 6, 2012


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