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Re: [doc RFA]: New option --with-iconv-bin
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:19:56 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> > Why not just say "if your @command{iconv} program is installed in a
>> > non-standard place, you will need to tell @value{GDBN} where to find
>> > it."?
>> >
>>
>> The iconv program comes from glibc, but you're right, it doesn't
>> *necessarily* come from there.
>>
>> How about this?
>
> It's fine, but...
>
>> +If @value{GDBN} is using the @code{iconv} program and it is installed in
>> +a non-standard place, you will need to tell @value{GDBN} where to find it.
>
> The first "it" is ambiguous: it could have meant GDB or iconv.
Yeah, I recognized the ambiguity in earlier versions and explicitly
tried a couple of variations to avoid the ambiguity.
I like what I came up with but it can always be improved of course.
> Suggest a slight rephrase:
>
> ?If @value{GDBN} is using the @code{iconv} program which is installed
> ?in a non-standard place, ...
Ok.