Re: [PATCH] gdb: remove unnecessary 'dir' commands from gdb-gdb.gdb script

[Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>]

Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
>
> Andrew> While debugging GDB I used 'show directories' and spotted lots of
> Andrew> entries that didn't make much sense. Here are all the entries that are
> Andrew> in my directories list:
>
> Andrew> However... I'd like to propose that we instead remove all the extra
> Andrew> directories completely.  My hope is that, with more recent tools, the
> Andrew> debug information should allow us to correctly find all of the source
> Andrew> files without having to add any extra 'dir' entries.  Obviously,
> Andrew> commit 67f0714670383a does make me a little nervous, but the
> Andrew> gdb-gdb.gdb script isn't something a non-maintainer will be using, so
> Andrew> I think we can afford to be a little more aggressive here.  If it
> Andrew> turns out the 'dir' entries are needed then we can add them back, but
> Andrew> actually document why they are needed.  Plus, when we add them back we
> Andrew> will use @abs_srcdir@ instead of @srcdir@.
>
> Makes sense to me.

Thanks.  I've pushed this.  I'm sure people will shout if it turns out
these were useful in someway.

Thanks,
Andrew