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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2005-05-12 09:05:45 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2005-05-12 09:05:45 +0000
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* gdb.texinfo (Startup): Fix last change. Treat gdb.ini like we
do with other non-standard names of init files.
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index e368349..a9e28c3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-05-12 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (Startup): Fix last change. Treat gdb.ini like we
+ do with other non-standard names of init files.
+
2005-05-11 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* gdb.texinfo (Command Files): Move the description of the startup
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 70f0d32..77eeb05 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -1166,11 +1166,10 @@ Processes command line options and operands.
@item
Reads and executes the commands from init file (if any) in the current
-working directory. This is only done if (1) there's an init file in
-your home directory, and (2) if the current directory is different
-from your home directory. Thus, you can have more than one init file,
-one generic in your home directory, and another, specific to the
-program you are debugging, in the directory where you invoke
+working directory. This is only done if the current directory is
+different from your home directory. Thus, you can have more than one
+init file, one generic in your home directory, and another, specific
+to the program you are debugging, in the directory where you invoke
@value{GDBN}.
@item
@@ -1192,19 +1191,23 @@ option (@pxref{Mode Options, ,Choosing modes}).
@cindex init file name
@cindex @file{.gdbinit}
-@cindex @file{gdb.ini}
-The @value{GDBN} init files are normally called @file{.gdbinit}@footnote{
-The DJGPP port of @value{GDBN} uses the name
-@file{gdb.ini} instead, due to the limitations of file names imposed
-by DOS filesystems.}.
+The @value{GDBN} init files are normally called @file{.gdbinit}.
On some configurations of @value{GDBN}, the init file is known by a
different name (these are typically environments where a specialized
form of @value{GDBN} may need to coexist with other forms, hence a
different name for the specialized version's init file). These are the
environments with special init file names:
-@cindex @file{.vxgdbinit}
@itemize @bullet
+@cindex @file{gdb.ini}
+@item
+The DJGPP port of @value{GDBN} uses the name @file{gdb.ini}, due to
+the limitations of file names imposed by DOS filesystems. The Windows
+ports of @value{GDBN} use the standard name, but if they find a
+@file{gdb.ini} file, they warn you about that and suggest to rename
+the file to the standard name.
+
+@cindex @file{.vxgdbinit}
@item
VxWorks (Wind River Systems real-time OS): @file{.vxgdbinit}