bug#51894: 27.2; GDB Gud support on Cygwin has trouble accessing shared files on Windows network drives.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:

>> Thanks.  So some other factor must be at work here.  I think the
>> solution of the riddle is somewhere in what GDB/MI returns to Emacs in
>> response to its requests, which is why I asked for gdb-debug-log
>> contents.
>
> One other thing that could be relevant is that Guy is using a
> self-built gdb 11.1, based presumably on the upstream sources.
> Cygwin's gdb is at version 10.2, and the maintainer has applied 9
> patches to the upstream sources.
>
> Guy, maybe you should try imitating the build of Cygwin's gdb-10.2 package.

Skimming this thread, I'm not sure there's anything actionable here --
the problems seem like they might be stemming from a self-built version
of gdb, which seems outside of the scope of the Emacs bug tracker.

So is there anything to do here on our side, or should this bug report
be closed?

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