Re: Improve GDB's first user experience by reducing "print_gdb_version" output

[Guinevere Larsen via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On 5/28/25 9:19 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:33:09 +0200
>> Cc: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>,
>>   "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
>> From: Phi Debian via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
>>
>> FWIW lldb produce nothing
>>
>> $ lldb ./hw
>> (lldb) target create "./hw"
>> Current executable set to '/tmp/hw' (x86_64).
>> (lldb)
>>
>>
>> One could argue LLVM series is not GNU yet GCC don't produce nothing either
>> (even with -v)
> Unlike GDB, GCC is not an interactive program, so it produces this
> information in the output of "gcc --version" and "gcc --help".
>
>> The proposed minimal greeting is nice, or can be push further with no
>> greeting at all (like lldb) assuming gdb --help or man gdb would be the
>> starting point leading to apropos...
> That'd be going too far, IMO.
>
Using -q or --quiet already does this, so we already allow this for 
users who would like a completely silent start (I personally have `alias 
gdb='gdb -q'` in my bashrc).

I agree that having this be the default behavior is too far. If 
anything, I'd like to tutorialize GDB a little bit more, and completely 
hiding the helpful parts of the initial message is the opposite of what 
I hope to accomplish.

-- 
Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
She/Her/Hers