From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103687 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2017 18:42:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 103654 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2017 18:42:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: gproxy8.mail.unifiedlayer.com Received: from gproxy8-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com (HELO gproxy8.mail.unifiedlayer.com) (67.222.33.93) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:42:05 +0000 Received: from cmgw4 (unknown [10.0.90.85]) by gproxy8.mail.unifiedlayer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626C61AB2F2 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:41:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from box522.bluehost.com ([74.220.219.122]) by cmgw4 with id YJhG1v0032f2jeq01JhKRw; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:41:19 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=QdwWhoTv c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=GsOEXm/OWkKvwdLVJsfwcA==:117 a=GsOEXm/OWkKvwdLVJsfwcA==:17 a=LWSFodeU3zMA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=pynPqs8VE7b_qK9azH4A:9 a=6kGIvZw6iX1k4Y-7sg4_:22 Received: from 174-29-39-24.hlrn.qwest.net ([174.29.39.24]:60368 helo=pokyo) by box522.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dKqkd-0003Sy-Qh; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:41:15 -0600 From: Tom Tromey To: Matt Rice Cc: Simon Marchi , Eli Zaretskii , Tom Tromey , orgads@gmail.com, "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix python compatibility with old versions of GDB References: <227db26304444bfb5ed8f699ab67e7fd@polymtl.ca> <87o9tsozn6.fsf@pokyo> <83ink03q1w.fsf@gnu.org> <27c866069cdcc4dc4b5e3cf5d3affe83@polymtl.ca> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Matt Rice's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:47:11 -0700") Message-ID: <87fuf3pw6t.fsf@pokyo> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BWhitelist: no X-Exim-ID: 1dKqkd-0003Sy-Qh X-Source-Sender: 174-29-39-24.hlrn.qwest.net (pokyo) [174.29.39.24]:60368 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 6 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTIyLmJsdWVob3N0LmNvbQ== X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00400.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Rice writes: Matt> Is there any argument against appending version to the data-directory Matt> by default? Matt> e.g. gcc configures /usr/lib/gcc/triplet/version? I see a number of Matt> /usr/share/*/[0-9]\.* directories here. It's not harmful to do this, but it's also incomplete, because there's also the manual and the executable to consider. Tom