Re: gdb has problems finding my sources

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-21T15:12:35Z

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:09:13PM +0100, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I've got a C++ test suite project that includes headers from and links
> with static libraries from another project which resides in a different
> directory tree (also pure C++). I'm using the current Fedora Core 2
> snapshot of gdb (gdb-6.0post-0.20031117.7 from 08-01-2004), but I've got
> the same problems with either 5.2 or 5.3.
>
> When debugging this testsuite gdb apparently has problems when I try to
> step into (template) functions contained in certain header files. The
> headers in question contain only template code which is used and linked
> into the testsuite application. gdb just gives me "xxx yyy.h: File or
> directory not found" where xxx is a line number and yyy.h is the header
> file in question.
>
> If I add the source directory for yyy.h explicitly from gdb using the
> 'dir' command it works, but I don't understand why I should have to do
> that - it works perfectly with for instance the Boost and STL headers.
> The other problems with adding the searchpath explicitly is that I'm
> using gdb from within KDevelop where I don't have access to the gdb
> commandline, as well as the fact that it's a great nusiance to have to
> add the dirs (there are potentially lots) each time I run the debugger.
>
> I've reproduced this exact same behaviour using gdb from the commandline
> so I don't think it's KDevelop's fault.
>
> Is there anyone who could provide me with any pointers wrt. how I can
> possibly fix this? Any help getting this sorted would be much
> appreciated.

If you can provide a small testcase for the problem, we can investigate
some more. I'm not sure from your description what could be broken.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer