Re: [PATCH] print '--with{,out}-babeltrace' in 'gdb --configuration'

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:36:54 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> [An alternative would be to punt on details at this level and instead
> >> record the complete string passed to configure and print that.]
> >
> > That has its limitations, in that it only shows options explicitly
> > mentioned on the configure command line, omitting the options that
> > were automatically chosen by configure as result of probing the
> > system.  E.g., --with-expat.
> 
> The intent is that it would be a supplement, not a replacement.
> [Apologies if that wasn't clear ...]

Sorry for my misunderstanding.  In that case, it's probably a good
idea, if there are important things that we cannot catch otherwise.

> Note that the current code doesn't print *where* libexpat,etc. were found.
> Do we want to take the step of adding that to config.in so it's
> available to gdb to print?
> [that's an honest question, not a rhetorical one]
> Which gets back to my earlier question:
> Do we care about printing --with-libbabeltrace-prefix?

I'm not sure that place is of interest to anyone but the person who
configured GDB.