global, target-specific, init files

[Michael Snyder]

Jerome Guitton wrote:
> 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?
> 

FWIW, I think it would make sense...