[PATCH v2 2/7] Add "help news"

Simon Marchi simark@simark.ca
Mon Jul 6 14:22:11 GMT 2020


On 2020-07-06 10:06 a.m., Simon Marchi wrote:
> (3) Since we look for the NEWS file at <data-directory>/NEWS, I presume it won't
> work when running GDB in its build directory, either with
> 
>   ./gdb --data-directory=data-directory
> 
> or
> 
>   make run
> 
> since the NEWS file is not there.  It's not a big deal, but if you think of an easy
> way to make it work, it would be nice.  Can we put a symlink from data-directory/NEWS
> to NEWS?

Ah scratch that, I see that your Makefile change copies NEWS to the data-directory in
the build directory,  so you already thought about that.

Simon


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