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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:36:20 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
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To: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>,
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Subject: Re: gdb trouble
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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."


> 
> Wild guess-
> Peter
> 
> Keith Seitz wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The gdb GUI is not Cygwin path aware, unfortunately.  Try the
>>> same w/o GUI by starting `gdb -nw'
>>>
>>
>> In what way is it not "path aware"?
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
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