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Re: [doc] Avoid conflicts between gdb and cross-gdb.
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: vapier at gentoo dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, monaka at monami-software dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:37:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: [doc] Avoid conflicts between gdb and cross-gdb.
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> I'm not sure I agree. What other projects do that? I never saw any
> transformed Info manual. And we never did that before, so why now?
>
> Besides, why do that? The Info manual does not include any
> system-specific information, it is valid for all supported systems.
> So I see no reason to put it into a system-dependent place or call it
> by system-dependent name.
>
> What am I missing?
Maybe you are right. I just found it odd that you'd do "man
powerpc-elf-gdb" but then do "info gdb", even if the debugger
you have is called "powerpc-elf-gdb".
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Joel