From: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>,
dje@google.com, brobecker@adacore.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1AD62834-053B-4A50-8E36-09F9A32D9535@cs.umd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838vbj74cn.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi,
On Oct 6, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> But we have to make assumptions about other applications that are not under our control, that they do not use the same files, which I think is an assumption that we should avoid if possible (who knows what's out there).
>
> How many other packages will have a file called doc/gdb.info or
> doc/gdbint.info in their build tree? How many of them will have
> something called i386-cygwin-tdep.o or mi/mi-cmds.o? I could find
> many more files whose probability to be in a non-GDB tree is exactly
> zero.
>
> I think the problem you are afraid of doesn't exist.
I'm simply offering alternative solutions that work regardless of whether the problem exists or not, and in some cases, is much simpler to implement. Isn't that a good thing?
Yit
October 6, 2012
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-06 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-18 20:33 [PATCH] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-19 13:01 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-19 19:53 ` [PATCH 1/2]: Refactor relocate_path to also check if the relocated file/directory exists Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-21 18:27 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-21 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 18:46 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-21 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 19:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-22 16:07 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-25 6:59 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-19 19:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-21 18:31 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-21 19:05 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-22 11:08 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-22 15:50 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 7:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-24 13:14 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 14:37 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 15:00 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 15:27 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 14:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-24 15:08 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 15:12 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 15:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-24 16:10 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 16:45 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-24 17:04 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-24 19:19 ` [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-27 9:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-27 14:57 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-03 21:31 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 0:09 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-04 0:50 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 1:34 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-04 3:41 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-04 13:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-04 14:26 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 14:25 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 14:51 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-04 15:07 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 15:28 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-06 19:02 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-06 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-06 19:36 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-06 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-06 20:12 ` Khoo Yit Phang [this message]
2012-10-06 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-06 20:32 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-06 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-08 16:33 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-08 20:13 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-08 20:24 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-09 5:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-09 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-04 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-04 13:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-04 14:48 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 15:23 ` Doug Evans
2012-10-04 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 18:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Try to initialize data-directory by first searching for "data-directory" in the same directory as the gdb binary Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 20:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-24 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 21:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-25 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 6:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-25 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 7:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-24 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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