Re: Why gdb 6.5 prints fullname in /cygdrive/... format om Windows?

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:18:19AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Of course, don't count on this working. The GDB could easily be built
> > on Cygwin, and the cygwin1.dll delivered. In this case there will be
> > no cygpath, and your front end won't work.
> 
> Just FYI, and Chris might contradict me, but delivering cygwin1.dll
> introduces some issues that are not necessarily easy to overcome.
> One of them is compatibility when the end user already has a cygwin
> installation present on his system. When that happens, very often
> the two will not be able to coexist at the same time and the user
> may see error messages saying that the application could not be
> loaded because of such issues. We've been able to work around this
> problem so far by having the cygwin install and our debugger use
> the same one (which one do you choose?), but I think it might be
> a risky practice.

Yes, this is very familiar to me.

  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00700.html

I followed the second solution and it worked fine.

Bob Rossi