Re: GNU Emacs 21.1.1 prepends drive letter to source pathname in gdb mode

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

"Starwatcher" <l.faureytierNoSpam@laposte.net> writes:

> I am a happy user of the windows build of Emacs: "GNU Emacs 21.1.1
> (i386-msvc-windows98.3000)" EXCEPT that it does not seem to integrate
> smoothly with Cygwin gdb.
>
> The problem I have is that, when using gdb-mode (M-x gdb), the automatic
> "source buffer" doesn't display the source code although I can see the
> instruction pointer marker in the left margin and the right source file
> basename (e.g. "hello.c") in the status bar.
>
> The reason seems to be Emacs failing to load the source file because
> both Emacs and Cygwin gdb have prepended the drive letter to the
> pathname of the source being debugged, resulting in an invalid pathname:
>             <driveletter>:/cygdrive/<driveletter>/<unix-like
> pathname>/filename.c
> e.g.:
>             e:/cygdrive/e/dev/hello/src/hello.c
>
> Any idea to work around this ? (through Emacs configuration, gdb
> options, gcc compiler options, etc.)

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| http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/cygwin-mount.el
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Might do it for you.

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Thanks,
Jeff

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