[Lazarus] Cannot debug app (gdb errors)

[Martin]

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.