Re: [PATCH v2] gdb/configure.ac: Add option --with-additional-debug-dirs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 10:01:52 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tom@tromey.com
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> > From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tom@tromey.com
> > Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:12:17 -0300
> > 
> > As a workaround, I was able to get away with some escaping:
> > 
> > $ ~/src/binutils-gdb/configure \
> >     --disable-{binutils,ld,gold,gas,sim,gprof,gprofng} \
> >     --with-auto-load-dir='foo\\\;bar\\\;baz' && make
> >     ⋮
> > checking for default auto-load directory... foo\\\;bar\\\;baz
> > checking for default auto-load safe-path... foo\\\;bar\\\;baz
> >     ⋮
> > $ grep AUTO_LOAD gdb/config.h
> > #define AUTO_LOAD_DIR "foo;bar;baz"
> > #define AUTO_LOAD_SAFE_PATH "foo;bar;baz"
> 
> Thanks, will use these in my next build, and see if it works for me as
> well.

FTR: just tried this with the gdb-14.0.91 pretest, and it works just
fine.  Thank you very much for helping me avoid this annoying problem
(it previously required me to build GDB twice).

I've updated the Bugzilla bug with this information.

Thanks!