Make GDB work more nicely on Ekam-built binaries.

7c4b96b5 · Kenton Varda · abf4ed59 · 7c4b96b5 · 7c4b96b5 · 7c4b96b5
Commit 7c4b96b5 authored May 25, 2013 by Kenton Varda
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this-dir-is-to-trick-gdb.txt c++/ekam-provider/this-dir-is-to-trick-gdb.txt +4 -0

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+../src
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--- a/c++/ekam-provider/this-dir-is-to-trick-gdb.txt
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+The sole purpose of this directory is to allow GDB to find source files when
+debugging an executable compiled using Ekam, since the source locations found
+in the compiled binary will correspond to Ekam's virtual filesystem, not the
+real one.  This is a hack, and doesn't always work.