Re: cygwin gdb

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > It turns out that cygwin gdb writes windows style paths as part of the
 > interactive log, but cygwin style paths as part of the annotation
 > information Emacs uses.
 > 
 > So while I was seeing c:/foo in the gdb interaction buffer, gud-find-file
 > would try to access /cygdrive/c/foo.
 > 
 > This is silently ignored, so the only symptom you have is that the source
 > is not being displayed when you hit a breakpoint and step through the code.
 > 
 > Including cygwin-mount.el in Emacs would address this, but I'm not sure of
 > the copyright situation there (I've written the 2 copyright holders listed
 > in the file, Michael Cook and Klaus Berndl.)
 > 
 > Another option would be to detect this situation and notify the user that
 > cygwin-mount.el should be set up to display the source code.

I thought that this was discussed before and that the solution was either
to use  MinGW gdb or build your Emacs under Cygwin.  Isn't cygwin-mount.el
just a fix for when you have mixed builds?

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob