Re: emacs gud does not work with libtool

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think the way gud tries to solve the problem of finding the source file,
>> is showing its limits and we need to add some way for the user to give more
>> info to gud so we can hopefully address all special cases, rather than
>> adding to gud some extra heuristics to deal with a handful more cases.

> I didn't follow this discussion from the beginning, but aren't the
> file names recorded in the debug info enough?  Most modern OSs use a
> debug info format that record full absolute file names of source
> files.

My understanding is that in those cases, there's no problem.
The interesting bit is when the filenames are not absolute (or when you
moved then or they were built on a machine where they were mounted
elsewhere, ...).


        Stefan