From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2521 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2012 20:32:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 2513 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Oct 2012 20:32:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,URIBL_BLACK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from server-nat-6.cs.umd.edu (HELO bacon.cs.umd.edu) (128.8.127.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:32:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pool-72-83-72-24.washdc.east.verizon.net [72.83.72.24]) (Authenticated sender: khooyp) by bacon.cs.umd.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3B99CB406CF; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:32:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Also install data-directory into the build directory as computed by relocate_gdb_directory Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Khoo Yit Phang In-Reply-To: <837gr373bi.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:32:00 -0000 Cc: Khoo Yit Phang , dje@google.com, brobecker@adacore.com, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1B50B817-5A39-4404-90A0-BA99E41A5643@cs.umd.edu> References: <9F52A338-A158-44DC-90C1-F46503859613@cs.umd.edu> <285502C6-1395-4049-9D55-031EDA3AD06D@cs.umd.edu> <20120924170348.GI4146@adacore.com> <20120927091737.GB2980@adacore.com> <20121004000840.GI3028@adacore.com> <20121004013358.GJ3028@adacore.com> <20121004145105.GP3028@adacore.com> <970CCEFD-FF30-4ED4-9ED9-F9C6A5400120@cs.umd.edu> <83a9vz769w.fsf@gnu.org> <564A38E3-9230-4FEB-A53A-970BDA2C142B@cs.umd.edu> <838vbj74cn.fsf@gnu.org> <1AD62834-053B-4A50-8E36-09F9A32D9535@cs.umd.edu> <837gr373bi.fsf@gnu.org> To: Eli Zaretskii X-CSD-MailScanner-ID: 3B99CB406CF.A2BA6 X-CSD-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSD-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-47, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -50.00, URIBL_BLACK 3.00) X-CSD-MailScanner-From: khooyp@cs.umd.edu X-CSD-MailScanner-Watermark: 1350160346.71536@h9kGG0192ccRj0xsORiZfA Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 Hi, On Oct 6, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> On Oct 6, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>=20 >>>> 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). >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> I think the problem you are afraid of doesn't exist. >>=20 >> I'm simply offering alternative solutions that work regardless of whethe= r the problem exists or not, and in some cases, is much simpler to implemen= t. Isn't that a good thing? >=20 > I don't consider those alternatives simpler from the user POV, sorry. I've outlined all the trade-offs that I can think of for various solutions;= can you explain what I'm missing? Yit October 6, 2012