[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50285] Possible "rm" missing from Makefile when attempting to replace gdbinit

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #50285 (project octave):

This ~/.octavegdbinit idea is in a sense already implemented.  gdb has a
variety of similar initialization options.  See

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/gdbinit-man.html

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Startup.html#Startup

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/System_002dwide-configuration.html#System_002dwide-configuration

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/System_002dwide-Configuration-Scripts.html#System_002dwide-Configuration-Scripts

The order of load precedence looks to be

1) System wide (first)
2) Account wide
3) Local working directory (last)

Maybe that order is a problem in the sense that one can't override
<buildtree>/.gdbinit definitions with what's inside ~/.gdbinit.  If that were
the case, then it wouldn't be necessary to not-overwrite .gdbinit if it
already exists.  Maybe there is some way of accomplishing the same effect with
one of the options in the links above.

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