Re: Auto-load safe-path and auto-load scripts-directory on Windows
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 13:24:36 +0200 > From: Jan Kratochvil <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:55:34 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I've noticed that the default values of these 2 path lists use ':' as > > directory separator, even on MS-Windows. Isn't that a bug? > > Yes, that seems a bug to me. I have no idea if configure is used for Mingw It is, of course. There's no other practical way of building GDB with MinGW. > and I guess ':' works for Cygwin. So I still do not see how to fix that. Using a variable set from the host, instead of a literal colon, seems like a starting point, no? > Besides that for example 'set debug-file-directory' originally allowed only > one directory but for some years it allows a PATH-style list of directories. > Should it be therefore the old option name deprecated + renamed? Preferably the options should be called "directories" or "path", not "directory".