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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:10:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add support for --with-system-gdbinit
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:06:29 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, guitton@adacore.com
> 
> I understand now.  There's an alternative to keeping it in the same
> tree:
> 
>   --prefix=/my/working/directory --with-system-gdbinit=/etc/gdbinit
> 
> In this version /etc is not relative to $prefix, so it wasn't
> redundant.  This example may seem a little weird, but it makes more
> sense for --with-debug-file-directory; your native system's libraries
> are always in /usr/lib/debug, no matter where GDB goes.

Thanks for explaining this.  Now I'm quite sure this needs to be
explained in the manual somewhere, or maybe in INSTALL.