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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [RFA, RFA 7.6] Improve help for, e.g., running gdb in build tree.
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yjt2620c6675.fsf@ruffy2.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)

Hi.

How about this for 7.6?

2013-03-27  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>

	* python/python.c (finish_python_initialization): Provide suggestion
	for how to tell gdb to find its python files.

Index: python.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/python/python.c,v
retrieving revision 1.111
diff -u -p -r1.111 python.c
--- python.c	12 Mar 2013 17:39:45 -0000	1.111
+++ python.c	27 Mar 2013 18:34:24 -0000
@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ finish_python_initialization (void)
       warning (_("Could not load the Python gdb module from `%s'."),
 		 gdb_pythondir);
       warning (_("Limited Python support is available from the _gdb module."));
+      warning (_("Suggest passing --data-directory=/path/to/gdb/data-directory."));
       do_cleanups (cleanup);
       return;
     }


             reply	other threads:[~2013-03-27 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-27 20:17 Doug Evans [this message]
2013-03-27 20:17 ` Tom Tromey
2013-03-27 20:44   ` Doug Evans
2013-03-28 12:00     ` Joel Brobecker
2013-03-28 19:46       ` Doug Evans

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