Re: [doc] Avoid conflicts between gdb and cross-gdb.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu 07 Aug 2014 18:43:34 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >   (1) Should we support out of the box distinct targets to be installed
> >       at the same prefix?
> >   (2) Should the name of some of those files match the name of
> >       the executable?
> > 
> > For (1), I'm leaning towards a "not necessary", but we can perhaps
> > find a middle ground. I don't know the various defaults to really
> > help making a decision without spending some time to look at it.
> > Either way, I have a fairly neutral opinion, so I am happy following
> > the group.
> > 
> > For (2), I thought that for the man page, and (to some degree, since
> > I know little about info) the "info" page as well. But again,
> > I don't really have much of opinion on that.
> 
> But "info FOO" does not mean "show me the file FOO", it means "show me
> the manual whose DIR entry is FOO".  (Although the stand-alone Info
> reader falls back to the file interpretation if it doesn't find FOO in
> the DIR menu.)
> 
> And the Info system doesn't really support more than one manual for
> the same tool anyway.
> 
> So I think, unlike the man pages, the Info manual should not be
> renamed.

yes, you'd actually have to rewrite the base node name so that instead of 
identifying itself as "gdb" it'd be "${target}-gdb" (i.e. apply the program 
transformation).  then doing `info sh4-linux-gnu-gdb` would give you the 
correct man page.  this matches the man page behavior where you can do `man 
sh4-linux-gnu-gdb` and such.
-mike

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