[PATCH] Fix python compatibility with old versions of GDB
Simon Marchi
simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Tue Jun 13 17:29:00 GMT 2017
On 2017-06-13 16:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> FWIW, I always configure GDB to use a version-specific data-directory,
> because I leave old GDB versions (renamed) on my system, so I could
> still use them after installing a new version. E.g., if the new
> version turns out to have a bug. I would actually be happier if we
> changed our installation scripts to do that by default, because the
> scripts are almost never backward-compatible IME.
Can you give more details on what you think could/should be done by
default?
For such a use case, I would compile each gdb with a separate prefix
(e.g. --prefix=/opt/gdb/<version>), which would give each install its
own data directory. So from my point of view, the "feature" is pretty
well-covered.
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