Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:40:26 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jan Buys cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive path In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jan Buys wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if this is a dumb newbie question. I am a dumb newbie to cygwin after > all :-) > > I use the gcc compiler under cygwin to make some big builds. gdb is used to > debug. However : I want to use a DDD-style visual front-end to gdb and my > first choice was GNAT/GPS (looks DDD-like :) ). The problem I experience > however is that software like this has problems when it encounters '/cygdrive/' > in the source file paths in the debug info of the executables I want to debug. > > Is there anyone who has a solution to this or can point me to an interesting > read ? AFAIK it would be a bit of a pain to start using a solution set diff > than cygwin now... let me make the best out of it :) > > Thanks in advance, > Jan Two points: 1) DDD is available under Cygwin, and 2) If the software above is configurable enough, "man cygpath" should help. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/