From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6896 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2013 09:02:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 6882 invoked by uid 89); 28 Dec 2013 09:02:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mtaout20.012.net.il Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:02:42 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYI00H00DBB7G00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:02:39 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYI00HDHEGF2F90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:02:39 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:02:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix cygwin compilation failure due to nameless LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT causes ntdll.dll to be missing In-reply-to: <20131228031719.GC4532@adacore.com> To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83wqip2vs1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20131218160707.GV30010@calimero.vinschen.de> <834n66ccs9.fsf@gnu.org> <20131218171819.GY30010@calimero.vinschen.de> <831u1acblu.fsf@gnu.org> <20131218173155.GA30010@calimero.vinschen.de> <83zjnyaupt.fsf@gnu.org> <20131218191757.GC30010@calimero.vinschen.de> <83y53iapy6.fsf@gnu.org> <20131218205416.GI30010@calimero.vinschen.de> <83fvpobsh3.fsf@gnu.org> <20131228031719.GC4532@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-12/txt/msg00978.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:17:19 +0400 > From: Joel Brobecker > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > I would hate to see it all lost in the mailinglist archives, though. > How about we turn this into either a comment in the code (my prefered > option, most of the time), or a gdbint update (on the wiki), or even > just a wiki page somewhere. We could open, if not already done, > a section dealing with Windows-specific issues. I can do that, please point me to the relevant places. Btw, there's one other quite significant nuisance with using file names that breach the 260-character limits: you can do almost nothing with them, once they are created, except if you write your own programs to deal with them. It looks like none of the programs and commands that come with Windows out of the box are able to handle such file names. You cannot delete them, neither from the Explorer nor by using DEL from the shell prompt. The Explorer silently and inexplicably fails to copy directories which include such files. So you are basically stuck with them, unless you write your own programs to delete/copy/rename them. (I didn't try Cygwin: perhaps its file utilities can also be a way out.) So: children, don't try that at home!