Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/03/17/12:58:13
---Anders Norlander <anorland AT hem2 DOT passagen DOT se> wrote:
>
> Richard Stanton wrote:
> >
> > I've been using gcc + gdb under EMACS for a long time with no
trouble, but
> > have just noticed a problem. I can't debug a program that's on a
drive other
> > than drive C: (I've never tried this before). Here's what happens
when I try
> > running d:\scratch\amput.exe:
> [snip]
> > This GDB was configured as "i586-cygwin32"...
> > (gdb) break main
> > Breakpoint 1 at 0x401077: file amput.c, line 31.
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: //D/scratch/amput.exe
> ^^^^ cygwin path
> [snip]
> > So far so good, except that in the source window, a NEW file
amput.c is
> > created and displayed. Emacs seems to think it's called
> > d:/D/scratch/amput.c.
> >
> > Any idea what's going wrong?
> You are using NT emacs, right? NT emacs is not a cygwin program (it
> could
> possibly be compiled with cygwin tools. Anybody tried this?) and
> therefore
> doesn't recognize cygwin style paths with a specified drive or paths
> containing "mounted" directories. As you see emacs strips the first
> leading '/' and thinks the rest is a valid windows path, which it is
> not!
Check the archives, I think someone posted a howto on this. BTW, I'd
use the http://www.eGroups.com mirror to search for this if I were the
one doing the searching.
==
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