On 26/03/2014 14:30, Tomas Hajny wrote:
It makes no sense to use absolute paths in debug information, because it
would make distribution of units compiled with debug information to other
machines impossible (or more precisely - it would be possible to
distribute them, but debugging would not work :/ ).
Absolute filenames (or at least more than just the name) are a must for
some cases.
iF you debug a library, then you start some launcher app, which loads
the library. Both launcher app, and library may contain a unit called
"Foo". Yet the 2 Foo may be different units from different locations.
With just the filename, the debugger can not handle this.
As for debugging the exe on a diff computer. The IDE will try by
filename only, if full path can not be found.
This fallback is also needed, because older gdb have some problems
finding a unit by full path, if .. are in the name (which is the case
for at least the lazarus.exe).
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