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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary


Hi,

On Sep 24, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Alternatively, we could think of having a routine that detects that
> the GDB binary is uninstalled, and relocate all the various directories
> differently. But that might be a bigger change that you'd want to, and
> I'm not sure this is something that the community might want (because
> it would add useless code for most users, only used by developers).

A simpler alternative would be to detect if the gdb_program_name == $BUILDDIR/gdb/gdb, then only look for $BUILDDIR/gdb/data-directory. It would still hard code parts of the build directory into the binary (i.e., make sure you don't have any embarrassing/privacy-leaking paths in your home directory structure), but would much lessen the risk of a stray data-directory. What do you think?

Yit
September 24, 2012


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