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.=======================================================
$ 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