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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-02-11 13:37:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-02-11 13:37:32 +0000 |
| commit | 17cc6a06fb3b69309d54c31d27834d5a105fe1d7 (patch) | |
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* gdb.texinfo (Environment): Document that `path' does not change
the value of PATH in GDB's own environment (it did in the past,
but that was changed on March 15, 1994). Reported by Doug Evans
<dje@transmeta.com>.
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index bd0271f..04c1921 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2001-02-11 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> + * gdb.texinfo (Environment): Document that `path' does not change + the value of PATH in GDB's own environment (it did in the past, + but that was changed on March 15, 1994). Reported by Doug Evans + <dje@transmeta.com>. + * gdbint.texinfo: Fix up @itemize lists so that @item is alone on its line. Fix markup of commands and macros. Add an Index node and index entries. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 72f50d9..3a97e29 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -1684,7 +1684,8 @@ environment without having to start @value{GDBN} over again. @kindex path @item path @var{directory} Add @var{directory} to the front of the @code{PATH} environment variable -(the search path for executables), for both @value{GDBN} and your program. +(the search path for executables) that will be passed to your program. +The value of @code{PATH} used by @value{GDBN} does not change. You may specify several directory names, separated by whitespace or by a system-dependent separator character (@samp{:} on Unix, @samp{;} on MS-DOS and MS-Windows). If @var{directory} is already in the path, it |