GDB under Cygwin: spaces in source path

GDB under Cygwin: spaces in source path

[Greg Johansen]

Sorry if this is a repost:

I am using GDB5.0 under cygwin on a Windows PC.  I have some sources in a
directory path that contains spaces.  GDB will let me cd to such a
directory:  "cd /cygdrive/c/test space", but I cannot figure out how to
specify a space-containing directory with the "directory" command.  I have
tried quotes and tried using backslash to escape the spaces, but GDB seems
to replace the space character with $cwd(see log below).

Is there some way to specify a source path that includes spaces?

thanks...gregj

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$ powerpc-eabi-gdb -fullname
GNU gdb 5.0
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=powerpc-eabi".

(gdb) cd /cygdrive/c/test space
Working directory /cygdrive/c/test space.
(gdb) directory
Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd

(gdb) directory /cygdrive/c/test space
Warning: /cygdrive/c/test: No such file or directory.
Warning: /cygdrive/c/test space/space: No such file or directory.
Source directories searched: /cygdrive/c/test:/cygdrive/c/test
space/space:$cdir
:$cwd

(gdb) directory
Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd

(gdb) directory /cygdrive/c/test\ space
Warning: /cygdrive/c/test: No such file or directory.
Warning: /cygdrive/c/test space/space: No such file or directory.
Source directories searched: /cygdrive/c/test:/cygdrive/c/test
space/space:$cdir
:$cwd

Re: GDB under Cygwin: spaces in source path

[Andrew Cagney]

> Sorry if this is a repost:
> 
> I am using GDB5.0 under cygwin on a Windows PC.  I have some sources in a
> directory path that contains spaces.  GDB will let me cd to such a
> directory:  "cd /cygdrive/c/test space", but I cannot figure out how to
> specify a space-containing directory with the "directory" command.  I have
> tried quotes and tried using backslash to escape the spaces, but GDB seems
> to replace the space character with $cwd(see log below).
> 
> Is there some way to specify a source path that includes spaces?

This is, unfortunatly, a very very long standing bug.  The parser needs 
to be changed so that spaces, in file names, can be escaped.
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=535

Andrew


> =======================================================
> $ powerpc-eabi-gdb -fullname
> GNU gdb 5.0
> Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License
> This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=powerpc-eabi".
> 
> (gdb) cd /cygdrive/c/test space
> Working directory /cygdrive/c/test space.
> (gdb) directory
> Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd
> 
> (gdb) directory /cygdrive/c/test space
> Warning: /cygdrive/c/test: No such file or directory.
> Warning: /cygdrive/c/test space/space: No such file or directory.
> Source directories searched: /cygdrive/c/test:/cygdrive/c/test
> space/space:$cdir
> :$cwd
> 
> (gdb) directory
> Source directories searched: $cdir:$cwd
> 
> (gdb) directory /cygdrive/c/test\ space
> Warning: /cygdrive/c/test: No such file or directory.
> Warning: /cygdrive/c/test space/space: No such file or directory.
> Source directories searched: /cygdrive/c/test:/cygdrive/c/test
> space/space:$cdir
> :$cwd
> 
> 
> 
>