Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add support for --with-gdb-libdir (default: /lib/gdb)

Doug Evans
2010-05-28T05:12:49Z

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> This patch is adding a gdb_libdir path where we can store/install
>> gdb-specific library/object-code files... The default is lib/gdb.
>>
>> 2010-05-20  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
>>
>>         * configure.ac: Add --with-gdb-libdir command-line option.
>>         * configure, config.in: Regenerate.
>>         * defs.h (gdb_libdir): Add declaration.
>>         * main.c (gdb_libdir): New global.
>>         (captured_main): Compute gdb_libdir.
>
> This patch is no longer useful as of today, since it was meant to
> be used to store the python library.  But Doug came up with something
> better since then, now committed:
>
>     http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-05/msg00476.html
>     (Allow python to find its files if moved from original location)
>
> There might be a day when we have something else that we'd like to
> store in the lib directory. But in the meantime, this is to confirm
> that this patch is withdrawn.

For reference sake,
I was thinking that since we had --with-gdb-datadir and
--with-gdb-libdir, do we need -with-gdb-pythondir? :-)