GNU bug report logs - #58826
29.0.50; gud-gdb can't find core file if executable is in a different directory

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Message #50 received at 58826 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefankangas <at> gmail.com, 58826 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dima <at> secretsauce.net
Subject: Re: bug#58826: 29.0.50;
 gud-gdb can't find core file if executable is in a different directory
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:14:14 -0500

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  > Telling GDB to chdir to another directory will not affect the
  > default-directory of the *gud-FILE* buffer, and that was the OP's problem:
  > the fact that typing a relative file name was interpreted relative to a
  > directory he didn't expect.

It must be Emacs Lisp code that creates the *gud-FILE* buffer
and handles these relative file name.  Can't that code be changed
to DTRT?

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