Re: [Mingw-users] Status of gdb building on mingw

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:25:24AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>As an observation: if paths are the issue, it seems like there is a lot
>>of effort being gone to get gdb working perfectly under mingw when
>>there could probably be less work trying to get paths to work correctly
>>under Cygwin.
>
>The MSYS changes are a little more than pathing changes.  Although the
>pathing changes could be turned on via a CYGWIN environment variable
>setting; the other changes you wouldn't even consider for Cygwin, I
>know that I wouldn't.

I wasn't talking about msys path changes.  The complaint about path
problems seemed to be gdb related.  I suspect that there are object
files with MS-DOS paths in them or something and that gdb isn't dealing
well with those.  Or maybe you can't say file c:\foo\bar at the gdb
command line or something.

My suggest was that rather than spending an inordinate amount of time
trying to get what is basically a Unix program working on native
windows, one could spend less than an inordinate amount of time fixing
up gdb's handling of native windows paths.

cgf