http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2012-05/msg00091.html ### src/gdb/doc/ChangeLog 2012/05/11 22:24:22 1.1315 ### src/gdb/doc/ChangeLog 2012/05/12 14:20:30 1.1316 ## -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-05-12 Jan Kratochvil + Eli Zaretskii + + * gdb.texinfo (Separate Debug Files): Use plural form for global + debugging information directory. + 2012-05-11 Stan Shebs Kwok Cheung Yeung --- src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 2012/05/11 22:24:22 1.961 +++ src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo 2012/05/12 14:20:31 1.962 @@ -16287,7 +16287,7 @@ @cindex debugging information in separate files @cindex @file{.debug} subdirectories @cindex debugging information directory, global -@cindex global debugging information directory +@cindex global debugging information directories @cindex build ID, and separate debugging files @cindex @file{.build-id} directory @@ -16332,14 +16332,14 @@ @item For the ``debug link'' method, @value{GDBN} looks up the named file in the directory of the executable file, then in a subdirectory of that -directory named @file{.debug}, and finally under the global debug -directory, in a subdirectory whose name is identical to the leading +directory named @file{.debug}, and finally under each one of the global debug +directories, in a subdirectory whose name is identical to the leading directories of the executable's absolute file name. @item For the ``build ID'' method, @value{GDBN} looks in the -@file{.build-id} subdirectory of the global debug directory for a file -named @file{@var{nn}/@var{nnnnnnnn}.debug}, where @var{nn} are the +@file{.build-id} subdirectory of each one of the global debug directories for +a file named @file{@var{nn}/@var{nnnnnnnn}.debug}, where @var{nn} are the first 2 hex characters of the build ID bit string, and @var{nnnnnnnn} are the rest of the bit string. (Real build ID strings are 32 or more hex characters, not 10.) @@ -16348,7 +16348,7 @@ So, for example, suppose you ask @value{GDBN} to debug @file{/usr/bin/ls}, which has a debug link that specifies the file @file{ls.debug}, and a build ID whose value in hex is -@code{abcdef1234}. If the global debug directory is +@code{abcdef1234}. If the list of the global debug directories includes @file{/usr/lib/debug}, then @value{GDBN} will look for the following debug information files, in the indicated order: @@ -16363,8 +16363,8 @@ @file{/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ls.debug}. @end itemize -You can set the global debugging info directory's name, and view the -name @value{GDBN} is currently using. +You can set the global debugging info directories, and view the +list @value{GDBN} is currently using. @table @code