[Bug build/18897] New: Default values for auto-load directories use wrong path separator on MS-Windows

[Bug build/18897] New: Default values for auto-load directories use wrong path separator on MS-Windows

[eliz at gnu dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18897

            Bug ID: 18897
           Summary: Default values for auto-load directories use wrong
                    path separator on MS-Windows
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.10
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: build
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: eliz at gnu dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Building GDB 7.10 on MS-Windows with MinGW toolchain produces a binary whose
auto-load safe-path and script-directory use a colon ':' for separating
directories, instead of a semi-colon ';'.

The values are computed by configure and written in gdb/config.h:

#define AUTO_LOAD_DIR "$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load"
#define AUTO_LOAD_SAFE_PATH "$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load"

This causes the auto-loading features not to work correctly, as the code which
uses these values at run time correctly uses the semi-colon as the separator
character on MS-Windows.

The fix should be to use a host-dependent character when computing the value at
configure time.

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[Bug build/18897] Default values for auto-load directories use wrong path separator on MS-Windows

[jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18897

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat dot com> changed:

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[Bug build/18897] Default values for auto-load directories use wrong path separator on MS-Windows

[eliz at gnu dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18897

--- Comment #1 from Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org> ---
Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org> suggested a workaround in
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-October/203020.html.

I tested it, and it does work.

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