[Bug gdb/30017] Cygwin gdb fails when given a windows absolute path

["jon.turney at dronecode dot org.uk" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30017

Jon Turney <jon.turney at dronecode dot org.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jon Turney <jon.turney at dronecode dot org.uk> ---
Using a Windows Eclipse and Winows Java with Cygwin executables is bound to
encounter problems like this, which cannot be generically solved in Cygwin.

Passing Windows-style paths to POSIX API functions which take a pathname
generally works.

But if an executable (in this case, gdb) does some internal manipulation on the
pathname, assuming it's in POSIX-style, you get problems.

The simple solution is to write a wrapper around gdb, which takes a
Windows-style path, and converts it using cygpath to POSIX-style before passing
it to gdb.

The complex solution is to modfiy gdb so it identifies the style of path before
manipulating it appropriately, but some one who cares about this edge-case will
have to write it.

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