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Re: [RFA, doc RFA] Don't install gdb.PYTHONDIR if -nx
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:58:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFA, doc RFA] Don't install gdb.PYTHONDIR if -nx
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:43:02 -0800
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> Eli, can I have a doc RFA.
>
> Sure.
>
>> +* New command line options
>> +
>> +-data-directory DIR ?Specify DIR as the "data-directory".
>> +
>
> How about saying what is this directory good for?
>
>> +@item -data-directory @var{directory}
>> +@cindex @code{--data-directory}
>> +Run @value{GDBN} using @var{directory} as its data-directory.
>> +The data-directory is where @value{GDBN} searches for its
>> +auxiliary files.
>
> Same here: what "auxiliary files" are those? ?Without knowing that,
> there's no chance users will benefit from this option.
This is mostly just for testing, so I punted.
But ok. Ideally I'd just include a reference to the docs for "set
data-directory" or --with-gdb-datadir, but those don't say much
either. Blech.