Re: [RFA, doc RFA] Don't install gdb.PYTHONDIR if -nx

Doug Evans
2010-12-06T21:15:24Z

Yay.
How about just a ref to @node Data Files?

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:43:02 -0800
>>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>>
>>> Eli, can I have a doc RFA.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>>> +* New command line options
>>> +
>>> +-data-directory DIR  Specify DIR as the "data-directory".
>>> +
>>
>> How about saying what is this directory good for?
>>
>>> +@item -data-directory @var{directory}
>>> +@cindex @code{--data-directory}
>>> +Run @value{GDBN} using @var{directory} as its data-directory.
>>> +The data-directory is where @value{GDBN} searches for its
>>> +auxiliary files.
>>
>> Same here: what "auxiliary files" are those?  Without knowing that,
>> there's no chance users will benefit from this option.
>
> This is mostly just for testing, so I punted.
> But ok.  Ideally I'd just include a reference to the docs for "set
> data-directory" or --with-gdb-datadir, but those don't say much
> either.  Blech.
>