[RFA] Look for system.gdbinit in specified --data-directory

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Thu Nov 15 11:31:00 GMT 2012


On 14-11-2012 18:17, Doug Evans wrote:
> Pedro Alves writes:

>  > I agree this is reasonable, but shouldn't this be documented
>  > somewhere?
> 
> To me it's a straightforward bug fix, so I left it at that.

It's a new option builders and system integrators have, that they didn't
before.  If we don't at least advertise it, people that already have
their workarounds won't ever find this new feature.

> [I'm not going to require writing docs for bug fixes, it'll bring gdb development to a crawl. :-)]

Yeah, of course.  Though, I'm thinking more and more that we could get better
release notes if all bugfixes had PRs filed for the correspondent bugs.
At release time, we could find them in bugzilla, and say "these is the list
of bugs that has been fixed".  Other projects do this in their release
announcements (glibc even maintains a lists of fixed PRs in their NEWS, but
I'm not suggesting that), and I personally find it useful and interesting.

-- 
Pedro Alves



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