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Re: Build question

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:56:45PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> IIUC, the problem is that gdb doesn't really differentiate between
> target file names and host file names.  This matters because some things
> are searched for on the host but some on the target.
> 
> If you want to always define HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM, I guess that is
> possible.  It is hard to picture when that would be appropriate for CVS
> GDB, though, due to --enable-targets=all.

Joel, didn't you have a patch for this at some point?  Or am I
imagining things?

I'm of the opinion that we could save ourselves a heck of a lot of
trouble by allowing both DOS and POSIX pathnames.  This breaks on
POSIX systems where you have directories starting with "c:" in the
current directory, or files containing backslashes - both quite
unlikely.  The only touchy bit is case sensitivity, of course...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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