X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Doyle Rhynard Subject: Re: Probllem with New GDB/Eclipse Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:51:01 -0700 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20060710201322.GB28287@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <20060710201322.GB28287@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:04:27PM -0700, Doyle Rhynard wrote: >> The newest version of gdb, gdb-20060706, does not work correctly with >> Eclipse-3.2 + CDT-3.02 (C/C++ plug-in). The problem is that the source >> code files are not found by gdb during debug sessions. I tried several >> different methods to force gdb to associate the source files without >> success. After replacing the new version with gdb-20041228, the Eclipse >> debugger worked properly, including no trouble displaying source files. >> >> If I had to guess, the recent changes to gdb to make it work with the >> Insight debugger broke some compatibility mode with other debuggers, >> including Eclipse. In any case, gdb needs to be fixed. > > I don't plan on tracking down why a package which is not part of the > cygwin distribution would have problems working with gdb. > > If there are generic problems finding source files in gdb, then I > certainly will look into them. I haven't seen any problems so far, > however, and I use that version of gdb regularly. For me, that is unacceptable. One of the main reasons many users install cygwin is to use the gnu C/C++compilers and debugger under Windows. Since Eclipse is the defacto industrial strength IDE, a broken gdb will annoy quite a lot of people, not just me. -- 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/