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Re: [PATCH] print '--with{,out}-babeltrace' in 'gdb --configuration'
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:31:50 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] print '--with{,out}-babeltrace' in 'gdb --configuration'
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:25:23 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:54:10 +0800
> >> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> >> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> >>
> >> The "relocatable" is unclear to me unless I checked configure.ac and
> >> previous discussions.
> >
> > I will add something to explain that, assuming I will find a way to
> > say that concisely.
>
> [for completeness sake]
> I'd be ok with just adding something to the manual.
> It would be good to document the fact that a gdb install tree can be
> moved and gdb will still find its relocatable ancillary files.
> This goes along with the ability to do "make install DESTDIR=/foo"
> which is a nice capability.
Is the below OK?
Index: gdb/top.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/top.c,v
retrieving revision 1.236
diff -u -p -r1.236 top.c
--- gdb/top.c 30 May 2013 17:27:44 -0000 1.236
+++ gdb/top.c 22 Jun 2013 11:30:47 -0000
@@ -1252,6 +1252,9 @@ This GDB was configured as follows:\n\
--without-babeltrace\n\
"));
#endif
+ fprintf_filtered (stream, _("\n\
+ (\"Relocatable\" means directory can be moved with the GDB installation tree.)\n\
+"));
}