From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc: insight@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Single-executable patch
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5ec2y03.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605171502.18798.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> (message from Mikhail Teterin on Wed, 17 May 2006 15:02:18 -0400)
> From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:02:18 -0400
>
> It seems, all three of the gdb, gdbtui, and insight executables are the same
> except for their (tiny) main() functions.
>
> The attached sample patch allows to install just the gdb and link it to gdbtui
> and insight -- the program will behave differently depending on the name,
> under which it is invoked.
This is against the GNU coding standards. From standards.info:
Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used to
invoke it. It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with a
different name, and that should not change what it does.
Instead, use a run time option or a compilation switch or both to
select among the alternate behaviors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 2:02 Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 14:31 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 17:50 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 17:57 ` Dave Korn
[not found] ` <200605171330.50762.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
2006-05-17 17:53 ` Does insight work? Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:06 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:08 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:15 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:27 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:41 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:03 ` Single-executable patch Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-17 19:28 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 19:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-17 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <200605171337.30938.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
2006-05-17 17:55 ` Questioning the withdom of bundling gdb and insight Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:11 ` Mikhail Teterin
2006-05-17 18:20 ` Keith Seitz
2006-05-17 18:31 ` Mikhail Teterin
2007-06-29 0:56 ` Mikhail Teterin
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