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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:44:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display configuration details in --help
In-reply-to: <514B4AC3.1090103@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:00:35 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> While I like the idea too, it looks to me that this
> 
> >>      This GDB is configured as follows:
> >>         configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32
> >>                   --with-auto-load-dir=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
> >>                   --with-auto-load-safe-path=$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
> >>                   --with-expat
> >>                   --with-gdb-datadir=d:/usr/share/gdb (relocatable)
> >>                   --with-jit-reader-dir=d:/usr/lib/gdb (relocatable)
> >>                   --without-libunwind-ia64
> >>                   --with-lzma
> >>                   --with-python=d:/usr/Python26 (relocatable)
> >>                   --with-separate-debug-dir=d:/usr/lib/debug (relocatable)
> >>                   --with-system-gdbinit=d:/usr/etc/gdbinit (relocatable)
> >>                   --with-zlib
> >>
> >>
> 
> is a significant amount of clutter for gdb's --help.
> 
> What do you think about putting this elsewhere?  "gdb --configuration"
> or some such, perhaps?

Fine with me, I can prepare a patch for that, if no one objects.

Should we also move this part to the new switch?

  At startup, GDB reads the following init files and executes their commands:
     * user-specific init file: D:\usr\eli/.gdbinit
     * local init file (see also 'set auto-load local-gdbinit'): ./.gdbinit