Re: Problem with cygwin 1.5.* (newest) and gdb 5.3 (prebuild)

[John Dallaway <jld at ecoscentric dot com>]

eCos maintainers

Berenyi Balazs wrote:

> I just started playing with GNU tools and Atmel EB40.
>
> As you have writen i have installed cygwin and downloaded
> prebuild gnutools.
>
> I wanted to upload redbood to the EB40, but it did not worked
> as you documented. I could not connect with GDB to Angel.
>
> As i found this is becouse of some changes in Cygwin.
>
> See more (and the patch for GDB) on :
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-09/msg00290.html
> There was some conversation about this problem.
>
> Please make a note on your (very good) step-by-step tutorial
> to use an _older_cygwin_.
>
> Please note that this is my first touch on GNU tools and my first
> error report.

The most significant implication is that Windows users using Cygwin 
1.5.x will be unable to perform an initial installation of RedBoot on 
Atmel AT91EB* boards. The Cygwin net installer still provides Cygwin 
1.3.22 but there are already Cygwin packages which require Cygwin 1.5.x 
so we cannot reasonably insist that eCos users stick with Cygwin 1.3.x.

I suggest that we add an appropriate arm-elf-gdb patch to the list of 
patches which should be applied when building an eCos toolchain.

John Dallaway
eCosCentric Limited