Suggestion: (how to) make Gnu Emacs work with gdb under CYGWIN

Suggestion: (how to) make Gnu Emacs work with gdb under CYGWIN

[Keith Knowles]

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On 19 March, 2003, I posted a note:
Emacs M-x gdb does not correlate CYGWIN symlinks to source files to
cygwin@cygwin.com.


The suggestion was, "use CYGWIN Emacs".  (I tried it but stayed with Gnu.)

I just tried this once more, but in a very simple environment (no symbolic
links of any kind).

When a break triggers in "test.c", Emacs opens a buffer, "test.c<2>" on
mythical file
"c:/cygwin/c/...test.c".  It appears that Emacs helpfully added the missing
drive letter.

I suggest that if Emacs did not add the drive letter when the /cygdrive
notation is present
(on a system with CYGWIN installed), then Gnu Emacs, CYGWIN and gdb would
all play
together straight out of the box.

(Of course, I could just be doing something horribly wrong, since I cannot
imagine that I
am the first to tread this path and, no, I can't really believe this doesn't
work.)

Cheers,
Keith

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Re: Suggestion: (how to) make Gnu Emacs work with gdb under CYGWIN

[Keith Knowles]

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Incidentally, I neglected to say that I now have a work-around.
T'is most odious!

I preload the *.[ch] from my cwd and copy them into shadow
buffers with the <2> name and the mythical c:/cygdrive file
name and (not-modified).  I will put this on a gdb-hook.

I don't think I can live with this long-term but at least I am now
debugging on Windows in other than Visual Studio.



On 12/27/05, Keith Knowles <keith.knowles@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19 March, 2003, I posted a note:
> Emacs M-x gdb does not correlate CYGWIN symlinks to source files to
> cygwin@cygwin.com.
>
>
> The suggestion was, "use CYGWIN Emacs".  (I tried it but stayed with Gnu.)
>
> I just tried this once more, but in a very simple environment (no symbolic
> links of any kind).
>
> When a break triggers in "test.c", Emacs opens a buffer, "test.c<2>" on
> mythical file
> "c:/cygwin/c/...test.c".  It appears that Emacs helpfully added the
> missing drive letter.
>
> I suggest that if Emacs did not add the drive letter when the /cygdrive
> notation is present
> (on a system with CYGWIN installed), then Gnu Emacs, CYGWIN and gdb would
> all play
> together straight out of the box.
>
> (Of course, I could just be doing something horribly wrong, since I cannot
> imagine that I
> am the first to tread this path and, no, I can't really believe this
> doesn't work.)
>
> Cheers,
> Keith
>
>

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