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From: Doyle Rhynard <drhynard AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Probllem with New GDB/Eclipse
Date:  Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:51:01 -0700
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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.


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