[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53241] .gdbinit macros for Octave debugging no longer work

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #53241 (project octave):

When I wrote the rule to avoid overwriting .gdbinit, I was trying to prevent
wiping out local changes that had been made by hand.  That still seems to me
like a friendly thing to do.

As far as I can tell, this rule should only be triggered if the file in the
source tree is newer than the one in the build tree.  How does that happen? 
Are you cloning a new source tree without also wiping out the build tree?  Or
does it happen because of some other hg commands?

In any case, I suppose there is no need to complain about copying the file and
updating the timestamp if the files are the same.

I don't remember why we copy the file to two different places.  Maybe because
all the tests used to be in the test directory?  But that was long ago.  It's
probably sufficient just to copy it to the same directory where run-octave is
installed.

I pushed this changeset:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/fc21ac9cd998


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