[Lazarus] Cannot debug app (gdb errors)

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

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

> On 2012-11-09 15:10:21 +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 ?

Michael.