[Lazarus] Cannot debug app (gdb errors)

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> On 2012-11-09 15:20:45 +0100, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-11-09 15:10:21 +0100, Martin wrote:
>>>> On 09/11/2012 14:11, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I'm having some problems since a couple of days. I cannot start my
>>>>> app from the IDE, I get the same errors with or without debug
>>>>> information.
>>>>>
>>>>> My setup is this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu 12.04 Linux 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:29:15 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>> GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2) 7.4-2012.04
>>>>>
>>>>> My locale and LC_Type are es_AR.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's the content of the debug window:
>>>>>
>>>> which version of fpc do you use? have you recently upgraded?
>>>>
>>>> Try stabs or dwarf.
>>>> do NOT (NEVER) smart link for debugging, see wiki dbg setup
>>>>
>>>> your GDB crashes while reading the symbol table (reading all, while
>>>> looking for a symbol that does not exist, But if this one was
>>>> skipped, it would crash later.)
>>>> This is an issue all versions of gdb have.
>>>>
>>>> The IDE has no influence on this. FPC (and the linker) generate the
>>>> debug info.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On a related note. your gdb is localized. the ide usually has no
>>>> problem, since most messages needed by the ide are still english.
>>>> It may have small functionality deduction. IIRC not showing
>>>> exception messages is one possible effect.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Martin, I'm using FPC rev 22945 and Lazarus 39266 (from today).
>>>
>>> BTW. Does anyone know how to force GDB to ignore localization?.
>>
>> Set LC_Type to C ?
>>
>
> How?, for example, creating a shell script to launch Lazarus?, I don't
> want to change the LC_Type for the whole system.

Not the IDE:

Create a script that sets the variable, exec's the debugger and then
point the IDE to the script instead of pointing it straight to gdb.

Michael.