From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29028 invoked by alias); 9 May 2011 21:08:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 29020 invoked by uid 22791); 9 May 2011 21:08:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 May 2011 21:08:26 +0000 Received: from hpaq12.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq12.eem.corp.google.com [172.25.149.12]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p49L8OZb022476 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 14:08:24 -0700 Received: from yxl31 (yxl31.prod.google.com [10.190.3.223]) by hpaq12.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p49L7gBe008488 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 14:08:23 -0700 Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so2494308yxl.41 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 14:08:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.82.7 with SMTP id j7mr6277742agl.99.1304975302927; Mon, 09 May 2011 14:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.72.6 with HTTP; Mon, 9 May 2011 14:08:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8339knipbj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20110509181947.6FF002461A8@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> <83d3jritdz.fsf@gnu.org> <8339knipbj.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 21:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [doc RFA]: New option --with-iconv-bin From: Doug Evans To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00232.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:19:56 -0700 >> From: Doug Evans >> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> >> > Why not just say "if your @command{iconv} program is installed in a >> > non-standard place, you will need to tell @value{GDBN} where to find >> > it."? >> > >> >> The iconv program comes from glibc, but you're right, it doesn't >> *necessarily* come from there. >> >> How about this? > > It's fine, but... > >> +If @value{GDBN} is using the @code{iconv} program and it is installed in >> +a non-standard place, you will need to tell @value{GDBN} where to find = it. > > The first "it" is ambiguous: it could have meant GDB or iconv. Yeah, I recognized the ambiguity in earlier versions and explicitly tried a couple of variations to avoid the ambiguity. I like what I came up with but it can always be improved of course. > Suggest a slight rephrase: > > =A0If @value{GDBN} is using the @code{iconv} program which is installed > =A0in a non-standard place, ... Ok.