X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44B2C041.1090304@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:01:53 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Probllem with New GDB/Eclipse References: <20060710201322 DOT GB28287 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Doyle Rhynard wrote: > 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. I believe Chris is just making the point that if gdb doesn't work with software that's not part of the Cygwin distribution, it's not a priority (we have to draw the line somewhere). That doesn't mean that someone else cannot find a solution and submit patches. In other words, it's a situation. So if this is a priority issue for you and you have some interest and ability to investigate it, you won't be covering the same ground as any of the Cygwin core developers. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/