From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:29:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Pass the full pathname to MSVC when compiling a debug version. This
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5795
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69d31b749d79c9831201ab5dd72411062bcb2b1c;p=python

Pass the full pathname to MSVC when compiling a debug version. This
allows the debugger to find the source without asking the user to
browse for it.
---

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index 79a4901bea..73cd44258c 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -309,6 +309,12 @@ class MSVCCompiler (CCompiler) :
             else:
                 self.mkpath (os.path.dirname (obj))
 
+                if debug:
+                    # pass the full pathname to MSVC in debug mode,
+                    # this allows the debugger to find the source file
+                    # without asking the user to browse for it
+                    src = os.path.abspath(src)
+
                 if ext in self._c_extensions:
                     input_opt = "/Tc" + src
                 elif ext in self._cpp_extensions: