Re: [cdt-dev] environment-directory passed to gdb

[James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 November 2010 04:35, Sergey Prigogin <eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The environment-directory parameter passed to gdb by DSF-GDB seem to include
> every directory under the project with all its subdirectories, grand
> subdirectories and so on. Total number of directories in my case exceeds
> 1000 causing gdb to become slow as molasses. Is it really necessary to
> explicitly pass all these directories to gdb? Why can't we pass just the
> top-level ones?

Not only is GDB slow, but Eclipse/CDT struggles.  There's been some
discussion on this:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=225805

Cheers,
James