From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn about data-directory when failing to import Python "gdb" module
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120917205828.GA28626@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FAB342FB-EF3C-4023-B607-A754DFF68E51@cs.umd.edu>
> If you are running GDB from the build directory, please run gdb with
> the -data-directory flag set as appropriate, e.g., "builddir/gdb
> -data-directory builddir/data-directory".
I expect that the majority of users will *not* be running GDB out
of the build directory. If they encounter the same issue with a
poorly installed GDB (Eg: They copied the GDB binary from one location
to another without copying the remaining support files), the error
message is not going to help them.
I think that people who do run GDB from the build directory (a power
user setup) should be sufficiently knowledgeable, and we should try
to tailor the hints towards regular users.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-17 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 19:36 Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-17 20:23 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-17 20:28 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-17 20:36 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-17 20:58 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-09-17 21:04 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-18 20:40 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-22 13:30 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-22 18:37 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-10-06 20:56 ` Ping! " Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-18 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-18 11:58 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-18 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-18 13:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-09-18 15:38 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-18 15:44 ` Jan Kratochvil
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