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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfa] Rename "set solib-absolute-prefix" to "set sysroot", improve docs
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pr51es2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070105174507.GA31679@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:45:07 -0500)

> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:45:07 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> 2007-01-05  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (Commands to specify files): Describe
> 	"set sysroot" and "show sysroot".
> 	(Using the `gdbserver' program): Lowercase argument
> 	to @var.  Expand description of setting up GDB on the
> 	host.

Fine with me, but:

> +@item set sysroot @var{path}
> +If this variable is set, @value{GDBN} will use @var{path} as the

The "set" commands don't set variables, at least we don't usually
explain them like that.

Btw, what would this command do for Windows-style C:/foo/bar file
names?  Would it work as users expect?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-05 17:45 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-05 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-01-05 19:20   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-06 10:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-08 19:00       ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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