Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:22:13 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: gdb trouble Message-ID: <20011120182213.Y14154@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <3BFA5F92.5000807@cportcorp.com> <3BFA8684.5090801@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BFA8684.5090801@home.com>; from superbiskit@home.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:36:20AM -0500 On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:36:20AM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: > Peter Buckley wrote: > > > I presuppose that it doesn't understand /cygdrive and mount points, so > > it doesn't compute /usr/bin to mean c:\cygwin\bin. > > > Now I'm totally confused [i.e. more than usually so]. > Why does the APPLICATION need to be "Cygwin aware?" If it references > "/usr/bin" the equation to "C:\cygwin\bin" or whatever is entirely > behind the curtains, nicht war? > > Please, Corinna, clarify what gdb is "missing." gdb is a Cygwin application. It can act using POSIX paths and Cygwin mount points. The GUI is not a Cygwin app. It acts using native Windows paths. Nobody has ported that stuff to Cygwin so far. AFAIK. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/