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The HISTSIZE environment variable is generally expected to be read by shells, not by applications. Some distros for example globally export HISTSIZE in /etc/profile -- with the intention that it only affects shells -- and by doing so it renders useless GDB's own mechanism for setting the history size via .gdbinit. Also, annoyances may arise when HISTSIZE is not interpreted the same way by the shell and by GDB, e.g. PR gdb/16999. That can always be fixed on a shell-by-shell basis but it may be impossible to be consistent with the behavior of all shells at once. Finally it just makes sense to not confound shell environment variables with application environment variables. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Mention that GDBHISTSIZE is read instead of HISTSIZE. * top.c (init_history): Read from GDBHISTSIZE instead of HISTSIZE. (init_main): Refer to GDBHISTSIZE instead of HISTSIZE. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Replace occurrences of HISTSIZE with GDBHISTSIZE. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp: Replace occurrences of HISTSIZE with GDBHISTSIZE. * gdb.base/readline.exp: Likewise.
README for GNU development tools This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation. If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file gdb/README. If with a binutils release, see binutils/README; if with a libg++ release, see libg++/README, etc. That'll give you info about this package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to report bugs, etc. It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein, run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.: ./configure make To install them (by default in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc), then do: make install (If the configure script can't determine your type of computer, give it the name as an argument, for instance ``./configure sun4''. You can use the script ``config.sub'' to test whether a name is recognized; if it is, config.sub translates it to a triplet specifying CPU, vendor, and OS.) If you have more than one compiler on your system, it is often best to explicitly set CC in the environment before running configure, and to also set CC when running make. For example (assuming sh/bash/ksh): CC=gcc ./configure make A similar example using csh: setenv CC gcc ./configure make Much of the code and documentation enclosed is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING or COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files. REPORTING BUGS: Again, see gdb/README, binutils/README, etc., for info on where and how to report problems.