global, target-specific, init files

Jerome Guitton guitton@adacore.com
Mon Dec 15 16:46:00 GMT 2008


Daniel Jacobowitz (drow@false.org):

> Well, we took a full path.  So you'd give it
> $prefix/etc/$target-gdbinit in your case.  The path automatically
> relocates along with an installed GDB.  Come to think of it,
> I'm not sure entirely how to handle relocation if you want to source
> another file in the same directory, but there's probably a logical
> extension of the current mechanism for that.
> 
> Does that clarify?

It does; I understand now. And I like the way you fixed the problem,
much simpler than my proposal. I have tested it and it works like a
charm. Would it make sense to have this merged into the FSF tree?



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