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Re: [PATCH] Make cygwin use .gdbinit
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: cgf at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:01:00 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make cygwin use .gdbinit
- References: <20011124182316.GA24305@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:23:17 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
>
> @@ -13067,8 +13067,9 @@ the last command, as it would from the t
> @cindex @file{.gdbinit}
> @cindex @file{gdb.ini}
> When you start @value{GDBN}, it automatically executes commands from its
> -@dfn{init files}. These are files named @file{.gdbinit} on Unix and
> -@file{gdb.ini} on DOS/Windows. During startup, @value{GDBN} does the
> +@dfn{init files}. These files are normally named @file{.gdbinit} although
> +filename limitations require that they be named @file{gdb.ini} on MS-DOS.
Sigh. Unfortunately, this wording is inaccurate and might be
misleading: it gives an impression that gdb.ini is only used on
MS-DOS. This is not true, since the DJGPP port works on Windows as
well, but still uses gdb.ini there.