Re: building gdb with TUI support on Windows

Joel Sherrill
2015-01-01T16:48:50Z

On January 1, 2015 10:42:45 AM CST, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 18:33:35 +0200
>> From: Ofir Cohen <ofircohenn@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>, "gdb@sourceware.org"
><gdb@sourceware.org>
>>
>> I launch gdb from DOS, using:
>> 1) set PATH=c:\msys64\mingw64\bin;%PATH%
>> 2) c:\gdb\build\gdb\gdb --tui
>>
>> When launching from DOS, how does it find ~/.inputrc?
>> Will the following work:
>> 1. Set HOME=c:/temp/
>> 2. populate c:/temp/.inputrc with your contents (for example)
>> 3. Launch gdb
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Will readline successfully locate the DOS path to ~/.inputrc ?
>
>Sure, why not? It works for me.

This sounds like a workable solution but it requires each user to do this. Will this be documented?

The other solution fixes it without any other user being impacted.

Just pointing out there is a difference.

--joel