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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [cancel] [patch] More suggestive error_is_running message
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417212234.GA21359@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120411164522.GE2852@adacore.com>

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:45:22 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> In any case, as I said, I don't have a strong opinion. I know that
> we want to both have concise error messages, while at the same time
> making GDB more explanatory on some confusing or tricky  situations.
> This is a real conundrum.

In general GDB should always suggest possible solutions to a problem.
Stating just the problem may not be enough for the user.

This is like GDB says just "(no debugging symbols found)" but Fedora GDB says
also:
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install bc-1.06.95-3.fc15.x86_64
considered good in:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-April/165756.html

This is why I tried to suggest (one of) a possible solutions to the problem,
but it somehow did not go in, maintaining all these messages downstream is
expensive.


Regards,
Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 19:20 Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-10 21:30 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-04-11  2:16   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-11  4:55     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-04-12 15:28       ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-11 15:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-11 15:48   ` [cancel] " Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-11 17:17     ` Joel Brobecker
2012-04-17 21:26       ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2012-04-17 23:01         ` Joel Brobecker

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