Re: [RFA] convert blocks to dictionaries, phase 1, main part

Elena Zannoni
2002-09-19T13:18:15Z

Richard Earnshaw writes:
> > >> There is some sed in MAINTAINERS for generating
> > >> the target list. Richard E, I believe, posted a script for doing all
> > >> the config's and builds.
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe we should have a contrib directory where things like this are placed.
> >
> > There is src/contrib but who knows who is responsible for that.
> > src/gdb/contrib or src/gdb/scripts? I'm personally ok with
> > gdb/gdb_<scriptname=mbuild?>.sh
>
> gdb/gdb_mbuild.sh it is then.
>
> Installed. I've tweaked my original slightly so that it takes arguments
> rather than requiring tweaking for your local environment.
>
> New syntax is
>
> gdb/gdb_mbuild.sh <srcdir> <builddir> [<par_jobs>]
>
> Where par_jobs is an optional number of parallel jobs to run (defaults to
> 1)
>
> R.

Should we document these scripts somewhere? Maybe a README file of some
sort? Or would it be more appropriate to have a chapter/section in
the internal manual?

Elena