Should "dir" override the full path encoded in debug info?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:51:43 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> But then how do you explain that when you compile
> differently GDB now finds the files in the new location, despite
> the fact that the files in the original location are still present
> (and the debugging info contains the path to the original files)?

You lost me here: I cannot figure out what does ``compile
differently'' mean, exactly.