Re: [PATCH 7/7] gdb: startup commands to control Python extension language

[Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>]

* Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> [2021-04-29 10:32:05 +0200]:

> On 4/22/21 11:02 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> > +set python ignore-environment on|off
> > +show python ignore-environment
> > +  When 'on', this causes GDB's builtin Python to ignore any
> > +  environment variables that would otherwise effect how Python
> 
> affect?
> 
> > +  behaves.  This command needs to be added to an early initialization
> > +  file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in order to affect GDB.
> > +
> > +set python dont-write-bytecode auto|on|off
> > +show python dont-write-bytecode
> > +  When 'on', this causes GDB's builtin Python to not write any
> > +  byte-code (.pyc files) to disk.  This command needs to be added to
> > +  an early initialization file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in
> > +  order to affect GDB.  When 'off' byte-code will always be written.
> > +  When set to 'auto' (the default) Python will check the
> > +  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE. environment variable.
> 
> Dot at end of variable name.

Thanks for pointing out these two issues, I pushed the patch below as
obvious to address them.

Thanks,
Andrew

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commit 8eb82ba1fdc052d2bb08ec6f0d98b8d2c10edd17
Author: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 29 10:29:41 2021 +0100

    gdb/NEWS: Fix typo and stray full stop
    
    Some errors introduced in commit:
    
      commit edeaceda7b2f33b2c3bf78c732e67f3188e7f0b9
      Date:   Thu Aug 27 16:53:13 2020 +0100
    
          gdb: startup commands to control Python extension language
    
    gdb/ChangeLog:
    
            * NEWS: Fix typo and stray full stop.

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 6550ea352ac..19cb444e7fe 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ show print type hex
 set python ignore-environment on|off
 show python ignore-environment
   When 'on', this causes GDB's builtin Python to ignore any
-  environment variables that would otherwise effect how Python
+  environment variables that would otherwise affect how Python
   behaves.  This command needs to be added to an early initialization
   file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in order to affect GDB.
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ show python dont-write-bytecode
   an early initialization file (e.g. ~/.config/gdb/gdbearlyinit) in
   order to affect GDB.  When 'off' byte-code will always be written.
   When set to 'auto' (the default) Python will check the
-  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE. environment variable.
+  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE environment variable.
 
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