+/* Set the data-directory parameter to NEW_DATADIR.
+ If NEW_DATADIR is not a directory then a warning is printed.
+ We don't signal an error for backward compatibility. */
+
+void
+set_gdb_data_directory (const char *new_datadir)
+{
+ struct stat st;
+
+ if (stat (new_datadir, &st) < 0)
+ {
+ int save_errno = errno;
+
+ fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stderr, "Warning: ");
+ print_sys_errmsg (new_datadir, save_errno);
+ }
+ else if (!S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
+ warning (_("%s is not a directory."), new_datadir);
+
+ xfree (gdb_datadir);
+ gdb_datadir = gdb_realpath (new_datadir).release ();
+
+ /* gdb_realpath won't return an absolute path if the path doesn't exist,
+ but we still want to record an absolute path here. If the user entered
+ "../foo" and "../foo" doesn't exist then we'll record $(pwd)/../foo which
+ isn't canonical, but that's ok. */
+ if (!IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (gdb_datadir))
+ {
+ gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs_datadir = gdb_abspath (gdb_datadir);
+
+ xfree (gdb_datadir);
+ gdb_datadir = abs_datadir.release ();
+ }
+}
+