[Mono-devel-list] Debugger support in mcs

[Nick Drochak]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:44, Martin Baulig wrote:
> The problem is that on Linux, you always have the symbol writer, so not having it is
> actually an installation problem - I got a few bug reports from people who had this
> problem and were complaining the the debugger did not work for them.
> 

I see. It must have occured on linux, but how could one not have it
installed if one does a 'make install' in mcs? Seems the makefile(s)
take care of this automagically.  One doesn't need to do something
special, right?

> However, in either case, the error / warning message needs to be improved to tell people
> what's actually wrong.  It'd be fine for me having it print a warning on Linux which tells
> people that it's an installation problem and that they need to compile and install the
> Mono.CSharp.Debugger directory.
> 

I totally agree with this. I'm still a bit stumped as to how it could
happen though (but it's not hard to stump me on things linux-ish).

> I'm currently very busy with other stuff, could you have a look at this ?

I'll try.

Regards,
Nick D.