Re: [PATCH 9/9] Document "target:" sysroot changes

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 03/20/2015 04:48 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> This commit documents the newly added "target:" sysroot feature.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* NEWS: Announce the new default sysroot of "target:".
> 
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (set sysroot): Document "target:".
> ---
>  gdb/ChangeLog       |    4 ++++
>  gdb/NEWS            |    5 +++++
>  gdb/doc/ChangeLog   |    4 ++++
>  gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo |   23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index bda4a35..3d4f98d 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
>    present in the debug info.  This typically includes the compiler version
>    and may include things like its command line arguments.
>  
> +* Paths supplied to the "set sysroot" commands may be prefixed with
> +  "target:" to tell GDB to access shared libraries from the target
> +  system, be it local or remote.  This replaces the prefix "remote:".
> +  The default sysroot has been changed from "" to "target:".

I think you should mention also what happens if you still use "remote:".
Something around '"remote:" is automatically converted to "target:" for
backward compatibility'.

> +If @var{path} starts with the sequence @file{target:} and the target
> +system is remote then @value{GDBN} will retrieve the target binaries
> +from the remote system.  This is only supported when using a remote
> +target that supports the @code{remote get} command (@pxref{File
> +Transfer,,Sending files to a remote system}).  The part of @var{path}
> +following the initial @file{target:} (if present) is used as system
> +root prefix on the remote file system.  If @var{path} starts with the
> +sequence @file{remote:} this will be converted to the sequence

s/this will be converted/this is converted/

> +@file{target:} by @code{set sysroot}. @footnote{Historically the
> +functionality to retrieve binaries from the remote system was
> +provided by prefixing @var{path} with @file{remote:}} @footnote{If you
> +want to specify a local system root using a directory that happens to
> +be named @file{target:} or @file{remote:}, you need to use some
> +equivalent variant of the name like @file{./target:}.}
>  
>  For targets with an MS-DOS based filesystem, such as MS-Windows and
>  SymbianOS, @value{GDBN} tries prefixing a few variants of the target
> 


Thanks,
Pedro Alves