Original bug ID: 86
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: not a bug
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Samuel Hériard
Version: 3.0
OS: Linux
Submission from: rde1-68.adsl1.club-internet.fr (195.36.220.68)

I don't understand why ocamldebug searchs the program to run in PATH
instead of the current directory when the filename is not an absolute path.
shouldn't something like this be better :

--- /home/heriard/src/caml/ocaml/debugger/program_management.ml Wed Nov 17
19:57:27 1999
+++ program_management.ml Mon Apr 24 16:40:39 2000
@@ -118,11 +118,13 @@
let initialize_loading () =
if !debug_loading then
prerr_endline "Loading debugging informations...";

• Symbols.read_symbols
• (try search_in_path !program_name with

•   Not_found ->
  

•     prerr_endline "Program not found.";
  

•     raise Toplevel);
  

• if Filename.is_implicit !program_name then
• program_name := (getcwd () ^ "/" ^ !program_name) ;
• (try access !program_name [ X_OK ] with
• Unix_error _ ->

•  prerr_endline "Program not found.";
  

•  raise Toplevel );
  

• Symbols.read_symbols !program_name ;
  if !debug_loading then
  prerr_endline "Opening a socket...";
  open_connection !socket_name

SHD