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some gdbs ignore a world-writable .gdbinit

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Message #20 received at 9600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 9600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, svenjoac <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#9600: 24.0.50; .gdbinit does not run
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:59:44 +0300

> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:00:36 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> CC: eliz <at> gnu.org, 9600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Would it work for me to make my copy of .gdbinit read-only
> but continue updating it with bzr?  Can bzr handle that?

Yes, I think so.  At least if I chmod a file to remove all of its
write bits, "bzr modified" doesn't call out that file, and if I modify
it and "bzr revert", the reverted file keeps the mode bits I set on
it.

But I would really suggest to get and/or build a later GDB from
official sources.

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