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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 18:43:22 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior.
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At 18:20 2002-07-28, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>On 28 Jul 2002 at 17:58, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > At 17:31 2002-07-28, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> > >...
> > >
> > >Now can anyone suggest a fix here?...
> >
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > Is there are reason you don't just move your working directory (the one
> > with the sources and executables you're trying to debug) to a directory
> > whose fully-qualified name is devoid of spaces?
> >
> > It really seems that you're making this a much bigger deal than it 
> needs to be.
>
>As in out of my home directory? I figured it was best to put my own
>stuff under that directory, to keep it separate from parts of the
>system and from configuration files. It would make things slightly
>simpler in the case a reinstall is needed, for one thing -- copy the
>home directory's contents out, reinstall, and copy them back, along
>with just a few configuration files like /etc/profile and wherever
>cron stores its state.

Paul,

Well, you don't have to put it in a system directory like /usr or /lib or 
/var. How about creating /home/pd or some such?

Loosen up a little. It's a personal computer, after all. Make it do what 
_you_ want!

Randall


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