[fpc-pascal] fpc in symlinked directory

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Tomas Hajny wrote:

>> The two should at least match; and you will not be surprised to hear that
>> I think the linker file is correct :)
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> It makes no sense to use absolute paths in debug information, because it
> would make distribution of units compiled with debug information to other
> machines impossible (or more precisely - it would be possible to
> distribute them, but debugging would not work :/ ).

I was waiting for this argument, because it is totally wrong :-)

The paths on another system may be wildly different anyway.
Just take a debian vs. fedora system.

Paths are valid only on the system where the compiler/debugger are running;
anything else is wishful thinking.

Michael.