Re: Problems with gdb and program files in another directory than current working directory

[Dmitry Dzhus]

Hello Geralt!

> when running gdb on a program in a subdirectory (like gdb -mi
> debug/myprogram) and the source files sitting in the current working I
> get always the following output, after setting a breakpoint:
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048c87: file foobar.c, line 52.
> (gdb) No source file named .
>  <--------- point is now here
>
> Is there a way to solve this? When running gdb in a terminal I don't
> have this problem.

I'm working on the code in gdb-mi.el:
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/GDB-MI/.

I've tracked down the bug which causes your problem.
Here's the patch:

diff -r 3003bc3e6d38 gdb-mi.el
--- a/gdb-mi.el
+++ b/gdb-mi.el
@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
   (let ((breakpoint (get-text-property (point) 'gdb-breakpoint)))
     (if breakpoint
        (let ((bptno (gdb-get-field breakpoint 'number))
-             (file  (gdb-get-field breakpoint 'file))
+             (file  (gdb-get-field breakpoint 'fullname))
              (line  (gdb-get-field breakpoint 'line)))
          (save-selected-window
            (let* ((buffer (find-file-noselect

It fixes the problem for me. This will be in the trunk soon.

Thank you for you report. Please, use M-x report-emacs-bug next time.
-- 
Happy Hacking.

http://sphinx.net.ru
む