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| author | Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> | 2020-07-05 13:02:40 -0600 |
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| committer | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2020-11-02 17:42:10 +0000 |
| commit | 8768c3e3629657d9728487c680b173868baeee7f (patch) | |
| tree | 9a8e29f261a25438a33f59a5950d499b6ecfb718 /gdbsupport/pathstuff.h | |
| parent | 5b3d3560e9e867f652ff622863cbac267455f726 (diff) | |
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Add get_standard_config_dir function
This adds a new get_standard_config_dir, which returns the name of the
configuration directory. In XDG, this is ~/.config/gdb/. Future
patches will make use of this.
2020-07-05 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* pathstuff.h (get_standard_config_dir): Declare.
* pathstuff.cc (get_standard_config_dir): New function.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdbsupport/pathstuff.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdbsupport/pathstuff.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdbsupport/pathstuff.h b/gdbsupport/pathstuff.h index 4bc0d89..85241bc 100644 --- a/gdbsupport/pathstuff.h +++ b/gdbsupport/pathstuff.h @@ -85,6 +85,20 @@ extern std::string get_standard_cache_dir (); extern std::string get_standard_temp_dir (); +/* Get the usual user config directory for the current platform. + + On Linux, it follows the XDG Base Directory specification: use + $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gdb if the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is + defined, otherwise $HOME/.config. + + On macOS, it follows the local convention and uses + ~/Library/Preferences/gdb. + + The return value is absolute and tilde-expanded. Return an empty + string if neither XDG_CONFIG_HOME (on Linux) or HOME are defined. */ + +extern std::string get_standard_config_dir (); + /* Return the file name of the user's shell. Normally this comes from the SHELL environment variable. */ |