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Charles Wilson wrote:

> Err, ok.  But shouldn't I be able to do source-level debugging, rather
> than asm-only?  (That is one difference between using cygwin1.dll alone,
> and with cygwin1.dbg: in the former case, cygwin calls are simply
> stepped over, even in I try to step into.  In the latter case, I can
> step into, but I get asm not source)

Yes, you should, but that's orthogonal to the popup messages.

> Hmmm--I just thought of something: do I need to replicate the source
> code path structure in the .dbg file:
> 
>    /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.24-2/...
> 
> perhaps by using a symlink, pointing to the location that setup.exe
> actually unpacked cygwin-1.5.24-2-src.tar.bz2?
> 
>    /usr/src/cygwin-1.5.24-2/...
> 
> Yep, that works.  I vaguely recall something in the gdb docs about
> overriding src paths, so that'll probably work too if I drag out TFM and
> actually R it.

Ah, that would do it.

In gdb >= 6.6 there is the "set/show substitute-path" feature for this
case.  But unfortunately the current packaged gdb is too old to contain
this.

Brian

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