From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Possible bugs in RHIDE 1.2
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:40:11 +0200
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David Eggert wrote:
> 
> 1) The first is a problem I saw mentioned in an earlier news post but didn't see
>    an answer for. It involves the invisible mouse. If a context switch is made

This is known and fixed with the next version.

> 2) This relates to the file paths that are used in the names of the files read

Since there are also others with problems to that topic, I will
try to explain, how RHIDE searches for files.

Any source file is searched at first in the currect directory
and then (if not found) in any directory given in the search
path for source files.

For the object files the technique is the same with one
exception: If the file was not found and you have specified
a search path for object files, the filename is computed as
it would be in the first directory of the serach path.
 
If you specify no search path for object files, any
created .o file is stored in the current directory.

When passing any filename to the called compilers,
RHIDE tries to make the filename relative to the
current directory.

The executable (or the created library) is stored
every tiem in the current directory.

>    that the file cannot be found). Also the intermediate .o file and the final
>    executable are generated in the current working directory rather than that
>    containing the source file (I would like all of the files to end up in the
>    same directory). Perhaps this is considered a feature, and maybe
>    there is an environment variable that I am not setting that can change this.

As written above this is a feature or misfeature (depends on your point
of view) and cannot be changed (except for the .o files).

> If these are really bugs, and haven't already been handled I can try to use the
> debug features of rhide to provide a more detailed analysis. Thanks for any help

Because your description was very general, I cannot say if there is a
bug. So please try to understand what I wrote and if you think,
that there is still a bug, send me the output from 'rhide -d ...'.

Robert
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