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

From: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp at cs dot umd dot edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
Cc: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp at cs dot umd dot edu>, dje at google dot com, brobecker at adacore dot com, jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:11:55 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
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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

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Eli Zaretskii

References:
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Doug Evans
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Khoo Yit Phang
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Eli Zaretskii
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Khoo Yit Phang
- Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
  - From: Eli Zaretskii

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