Re: [patch 0/9] Absolute filenames

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

> I think it was me who introduced this patch. I found:
> http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2002-03/msg00345.html
> 
> It was 10 years ago, and I am not quite certain of how relevant
> that is. I know that we now deal with the naming scheme in a more
> flexible way, so the symbolic links to create filenames with
> the usual names are no longer necessary. This makes the situation
> leading to the problem a little OBE. The problem itself, however,
> might still be relevant.
> 
> It seems to me that the purpose of "set basenames-may-differ" is
> slightly different from what the original report tried to achieve.
> 
> I will consult with the GPS team as well (GVD is now part of GPS).

Just got an answer, and they are confident that the initial problem
should not affect them anymore - or said differently, even if
the filename was a symbolic link and that symbolic link was resolved,
the debugger front-end should not be confused by it.

-- 
Joel