* gdb.texinfo (Environment): Document that `path' does not change

	the value of PATH in GDB's own environment (it did in the past,
	but that was changed on March 15, 1994).  Reported by Doug Evans
	<dje@transmeta.com>.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index bd0271f82c32d8bfae20a0a813cb218a35f71bd7..04c19219a87b250228bfb730e6c33d045edf2156 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2001-02-11  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
+       * gdb.texinfo (Environment): Document that `path' does not change
+       the value of PATH in GDB's own environment (it did in the past,
+       but that was changed on March 15, 1994).  Reported by Doug Evans
+       <dje@transmeta.com>.
+
        * gdbint.texinfo: Fix up @itemize lists so that @item is alone on
        its line.  Fix markup of commands and macros.  Add an Index node
        and index entries.

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 72f50d95897ab95e0310bd9fa990f05bc35c3cc9..3a97e290553635614eb20c4196de278053fb2fb9 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -1684,7 +1684,8 @@ environment without having to start @value{GDBN} over again.
 @kindex path
 @item path @var{directory}
 Add @var{directory} to the front of the @code{PATH} environment variable
-(the search path for executables), for both @value{GDBN} and your program.
+(the search path for executables) that will be passed to your program.
+The value of @code{PATH} used by @value{GDBN} does not change.
 You may specify several directory names, separated by whitespace or by a
 system-dependent separator character (@samp{:} on Unix, @samp{;} on
 MS-DOS and MS-Windows).  If @var{directory} is already in the path, it