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List:       netbsd-current-users
Subject:    Re: .gdbinit files in the repository
From:       Thomas Klausner <wiz () netbsd ! org>
Date:       2022-11-23 21:23:52
Message-ID: Y36PaErbhESOjzY5 () yt ! nih ! at
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 04:15:37PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 11:49, Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Should these files be there?
> >
> > /usr/src> find . -name .gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/binutils/dist/gprof/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/binutils.old/dist/gprof/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb/dist/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdbinit-history/unlimited/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb/dist/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdbinit-history/zero/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb/dist/sim/ppc/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb/dist/gprof/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb.old/dist/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdbinit-history/unlimited/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb.old/dist/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdbinit-history/zero/.gdbinit
> > ./external/gpl3/gdb.old/dist/sim/ppc/.gdbinit
> > ./external/lgpl3/gmp/dist/.gdbinit
> >
> > Looks to me like they should be deleted by the *2netbsd import preparation scripts.
> 
> Is there a problem?  For instance, removing
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdbinit-history/unlimited/.gdbinit would break
> that test (if someone were to desire to run it).

No problem - but usually dot files are not displayed (with ls) and
this could lead to surprises when you start gdb in those directories.
 Thomas
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