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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:32:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r335829 - user/cperciva/panicmail
Message-ID:  <201807021632.w62GWjme034534@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <575515de-523d-e0eb-ecc8-1aa517f5f34c@FreeBSD.org>

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> On 6/30/18 5:07 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> > Author: cperciva
> > Date: Sun Jul  1 00:07:41 2018
> > New Revision: 335829
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335829
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add /usr/local/bin to $PATH so that panicmail can use gdb from ports.
> >   
> >   Submitted by:	sbruno
> 
> If gdb from ports isn't installed, the old gdb will be present in /usr/libexec
> if it isn't present in /usr/bin.  At some point /usr/libexec/gdb might go away,
> but it is present there for now.  The crashinfo script prefers gdb from
> /usr/local/bin and falls back to /usr/libexec or /usr/bin.

Um, one is makeing an assumption even using /usr/local, our ports/pacakge
system has allowed this to be some other place for over 2 decades.  At
one point all of base was irreadicated of /usr/local references, it is
a mistake to be putting any back.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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