gdb errors with b17.1

["R. Britt Freund" <brittf at mail dot utexas dot edu>]

Thanks in advance for your help...

I am trying to get the Cygnus b17.1 all.tar.gz distribution to work
correctly on Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with service pack #2.  I am a
professor of OR at the University of Texas at Austin and I would dearly
like to use the GNU compiler to write some optimization programs for my
research.  I am a decent coder (not great) but I am not an expert at the
intricacies of compilers.  I simply use C++ to solve some relatively
specific optimization problems.  I believe I have installed the
distribution correctly (ie. relatively complex programs are compiling fine)
but I keep on running into problems using the GNU gdb debugger.  To ensure
that some "strangeness" to my coding isn't the problem, I have written a
simple hello, world program, compiled it with the debugging options on, and
then attempted to debug it.  A transcript follows:

********** a very simple program **********
/Temp [21] cat hello.cpp
// hello.cpp  (-*- C++ -*-)

#include <iostream.h>

main()
{
  cout << "Hello, world!\n";
}

********** that compiles without complaint **********
/Temp [22] gcc -o hello hello.cpp -lstdc++ -g

********** but doesn't seem to like gdb **********
/Temp [23] gdb hello.exe
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This GDB was configured as "i386-cygwin32"...
(gdb) list
1       // hello.cpp  (-*- C++ -*-)
2
3       #include <iostream.h>
4
5       main()
6       {
7         cout << "Hello, world!\n";
8       }
(gdb) b 7
Breakpoint 1 at 0x40102c: file hello.cpp, line 7.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /Temp/hello.exe
10000000:/Cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwin.dll

[failed reading symbols from DLL]
"/Mount/C/WINNT/system32/kernel32.dll": error reading line numbers


[failed reading symbols from DLL]
"/Mount/C/WINNT/system32/advapi32.dll": error reading line numbers

77e70000:/Mount/C/WINNT/system32/USER32.dll
77ed0000:/Mount/C/WINNT/system32/GDI32.dll
77e20000:/Mount/C/WINNT/system32/RPCRT4.dll
776d0000:/Mount/C/WINNT/System32/wsock32.dll

[failed reading symbols from DLL]
"/Mount/C/WINNT/System32/WS2_32.dll": error reading line numbers

779f0000:/Mount/C/WINNT/system32/MSVCRT.dll

[failed reading symbols from DLL]
"/Mount/C/WINNT/System32/WS2HELP.dll": error reading line numbers

77e10000:/Mount/C/WINNT/System32/rpcltc1.dll

Breakpoint 1, main () at hello.cpp:7
7         cout << "Hello, world!\n";


These DLL read/line-number errors crop up under every condition I can try
(ie. command.com, bash, emacs lisp file) and I don't know enough to track
down the problem.  I believe I have installed everything correctly.  My
system drive is C: (ie. C:\WINNT) and all of my GNU stuff in on drive E:
(ie. E:\Cygnus, E:\GStools, E:\Emacs,...).  I also believe I have set the
environmental variables correctly:

GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=E:\Cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\
Path=.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;E:\TeXmf\miktex\bin;E:\Emacs-19.34\bin;E:\
GnuServ;E:\Emacs-19.34\ispell4\exe;E:\GnuPlot;E:\Cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;
E:\Bin;E:\TeXmf\dviwin29\bin;E:\GSTools\GSView

E:\Bin\sh.exe does exist, and I believe I have mounted things ok:

/Temp [24] mount
Device           Directory           Type        Flags
\\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
\\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
\\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
\\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
d:               /Mount/D            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
c:               /Mount/C            native      no-mixed,text!=binary
e:               /                   native      no-mixed,text!=binary

I am at a complete loss as to where to go from here....  The last thing I
want to do is purchase a Microsoft compiler, but I may be forced to since I
can't spend much more time on this...  Do you have any suggestions at all? 
It seems like this is a simple problem and that I am simply screwing up
somewhere...  Please help if you can.

Thanks again,
brittf@mail.utexas.edu

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