On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:24:36AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >Attached is a first draft of a patch to support split debuginfo packages >automatically in cygport. I'm looking for comments and suggestions, >particularly on the following: > >1) I propose adding a Debug category for all -debuginfo packages. > >2) This places the debuginfo from e.g. /usr/bin/cygfoo-X.dll into >/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cygfoo-X.dbg. Unfortunately, when gdb finds >library dependencies, they show up as e.g. >/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/cygfoo-X.dll instead of as in /usr/bin, causing >gdb to not find the debug file. There are at least three solutions to this: > >a. Fix (cygwin or) gdb to use /usr paths over /cygdrive/c/cygwin paths;
Why is this necessary? The path to the debuginfo file is supposed to be in the executable. cygwin1.dll doesn't use cygdrive. cgf