Index: buildsym.c
===================================================================
--- buildsym.c	(revision 44)
+++ buildsym.c	(working copy)
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ make_blockvector (struct objfile *objfil
    the directory in which the file was compiled (or NULL if not known).  */
 
 void
-start_subfile (char *name, char *dirname)
+start_subfile_1 (char *name, char *dirname)
 {
   struct subfile *subfile;
 
@@ -589,27 +589,11 @@ start_subfile (char *name, char *dirname
 
   for (subfile = subfiles; subfile; subfile = subfile->next)
     {
-      char *subfile_name;
-
-      /* If NAME is an absolute path, and this subfile is not, then
-	 attempt to create an absolute path to compare.  */
-      if (IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (name)
-	  && !IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (subfile->name)
-	  && subfile->dirname != NULL)
-	subfile_name = concat (subfile->dirname, SLASH_STRING,
-			       subfile->name, NULL);
-      else
-	subfile_name = subfile->name;
-
-      if (FILENAME_CMP (subfile_name, name) == 0)
+      if (FILENAME_CMP (subfile->name, name) == 0)
 	{
 	  current_subfile = subfile;
-	  if (subfile_name != subfile->name)
-	    xfree (subfile_name);
 	  return;
 	}
-      if (subfile_name != subfile->name)
-	xfree (subfile_name);
     }
 
   /* This subfile is not known.  Add an entry for it. Make an entry
@@ -681,6 +665,53 @@ start_subfile (char *name, char *dirname
     }
 }
 
+/* This function is a wrapper around start_subfile_1 which rewrites
+   a bit NAME and DIRNAME to make sure that we are always consistent
+   in how we create subfiles: Turn NAME into a basename, and adjust
+   DIRNAME accordingly.  */
+
+void
+start_subfile (char *name, char *dirname)
+{
+  char *new_name, new_dir_name;
+
+  new_name = lbasename (name);
+
+  /* The simple usual case: NAME is the name of a file without any path
+     (in other words, it's already a basename).  In that case, we use
+     DIR_NAME as is.  */
+  if (FILENAME_CMP (new_name, name) == 0)
+    new_dir_name = dir_name;
+  
+  /* Another simple case: NAME is an absolute PATH.  In that case,
+     we can ignore the compilation dir, and use the path inside NAME
+     as the dir name.  */
+  else if (IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (name))
+    new_dir_name = ldirname (name);
+
+  /* Otherwise, NAME is a relative PATH, so we extract the relative
+     path from name, and append it at the end of DIRNAME.  IF DIRNAME
+     is NULL, then we use that relative path as the DIRNAME.  */
+  else
+    {
+      char *name_relative_path = ldirname (name);
+
+      if (dirname != NULL)
+        {
+          new_dir_name = concat (dirname, SLASH_STRING, name_relative_path,
+                                 NULL);
+          xfree (name_relative_path);
+        }
+      else
+        new_dir_name = name_relative_path;
+    }
+
+  start_subfile_1 (new_name, new_dir_name);
+
+  xfree (new_name);
+  xfree (new_dir_name);
+}
+
 /* For stabs readers, the first N_SO symbol is assumed to be the
    source file name, and the subfile struct is initialized using that
    assumption.  If another N_SO symbol is later seen, immediately