@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
*** Changes since GDB 7.7
+* New command line options
+
+-D data-directory
+ This is an alias for the --data-directory option.
+
* GDB supports printing and modifying of variable length automatic arrays
as specified in ISO C99.
@@ -1164,7 +1164,9 @@ Run @value{GDBN} using @var{directory} as its working directory,
instead of the current directory.
@item -data-directory @var{directory}
+@itemx -D @var{directory}
@cindex @code{--data-directory}
+@cindex @code{-D}
Run @value{GDBN} using @var{directory} as its data directory.
The data directory is where @value{GDBN} searches for its
auxiliary files. @xref{Data Files}.
@@ -106,6 +106,41 @@ get_gdb_program_name (void)
static void print_gdb_help (struct ui_file *);
+/* Set the data-directory parameter to NEW_DATADIR.
+ If NEW_DATADIR is not a directory then a warning is printed.
+ We don't signal an error for backward compatibility. */
+
+void
+set_gdb_data_directory (const char *new_datadir)
+{
+ struct stat st;
+
+ if (stat (new_datadir, &st) < 0)
+ {
+ int save_errno = errno;
+
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Warning: ");
+ print_sys_errmsg (new_datadir, save_errno);
+ }
+ else if (!S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
+ warning (_("%s is not a directory."), new_datadir);
+
+ xfree (gdb_datadir);
+ gdb_datadir = gdb_realpath (new_datadir);
+
+ /* gdb_realpath won't return an absolute path if the path doesn't exist,
+ but we still want to record an absolute path here. If the user entered
+ "../foo" and "../foo" doesn't exist then we'll record $(pwd)/../foo which
+ isn't canonical, but that's ok. */
+ if (!IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (gdb_datadir))
+ {
+ char *abs_datadir = gdb_abspath (gdb_datadir);
+
+ xfree (gdb_datadir);
+ gdb_datadir = abs_datadir;
+ }
+}
+
/* Relocate a file or directory. PROGNAME is the name by which gdb
was invoked (i.e., argv[0]). INITIAL is the default value for the
file or directory. FLAG is true if the value is relocatable, false
@@ -517,6 +552,7 @@ captured_main (void *data)
{"directory", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
{"d", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
{"data-directory", required_argument, 0, 'D'},
+ {"D", required_argument, 0, 'D'},
{"cd", required_argument, 0, OPT_CD},
{"tty", required_argument, 0, 't'},
{"baud", required_argument, 0, 'b'},
@@ -641,8 +677,15 @@ captured_main (void *data)
gdb_stdout = ui_file_new();
break;
case 'D':
- xfree (gdb_datadir);
- gdb_datadir = xstrdup (optarg);
+ if (optarg[0] == '\0')
+ {
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr,
+ _("%s: empty path for"
+ " `--data-directory'\n"),
+ argv[0]);
+ exit (1);
+ }
+ set_gdb_data_directory (optarg);
gdb_datadir_provided = 1;
break;
#ifdef GDBTK
@@ -47,4 +47,6 @@ extern char *windows_get_absolute_argv0 (const char *argv0);
parse the argv array. */
extern const char *get_gdb_program_name (void);
+extern void set_gdb_data_directory (const char *new_data_dir);
+
#endif
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ proc test_catch_syscall_fail_nodatadir {} {
# Make sure GDB doesn't load the syscalls xml from the system
# data directory.
- gdb_test_no_output "set data-directory /the/path/to/nowhere"
+ gdb_test "set data-directory /the/path/to/nowhere" \
+ "Warning: /the/path/to/nowhere: .*"
# Testing to see if we receive a warning when calling "catch
# syscall" without XML support (without datadir).
@@ -374,7 +375,8 @@ proc test_catch_syscall_with_wrong_args_noxml {} {
proc do_syscall_tests_without_xml {} {
# Make sure GDB doesn't load the syscalls xml from the system data
# directory.
- gdb_test_no_output "set data-directory /the/path/to/nowhere"
+ gdb_test "set data-directory /the/path/to/nowhere" \
+ "Warning: /the/path/to/nowhere: .*"
# Let's test if we can catch syscalls without XML support.
# We should succeed, but GDB is not supposed to print syscall names.
@@ -1668,14 +1668,28 @@ show_exec_done_display_p (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
value);
}
+/* New values of the "data-directory" parameter are staged here. */
+static char *staged_gdb_datadir;
+
/* "set" command for the gdb_datadir configuration variable. */
static void
set_gdb_datadir (char *args, int from_tty, struct cmd_list_element *c)
{
+ set_gdb_data_directory (staged_gdb_datadir);
observer_notify_gdb_datadir_changed ();
}
+/* "show" command for the gdb_datadir configuration variable. */
+
+static void
+show_gdb_datadir (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
+ struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
+{
+ fprintf_filtered (file, _("GDB's data directory is \"%s\".\n"),
+ gdb_datadir);
+}
+
static void
set_history_filename (char *args, int from_tty, struct cmd_list_element *c)
{
@@ -1793,11 +1807,11 @@ Use \"on\" to enable the notification, and \"off\" to disable it."),
&setlist, &showlist);
add_setshow_filename_cmd ("data-directory", class_maintenance,
- &gdb_datadir, _("Set GDB's data directory."),
+ &staged_gdb_datadir, _("Set GDB's data directory."),
_("Show GDB's data directory."),
_("\
When set, GDB uses the specified path to search for data files."),
- set_gdb_datadir, NULL,
+ set_gdb_datadir, show_gdb_datadir,
&setlist,
&showlist);
}