Hi Achim- Thanks. Unfortunately, the change didn't seem to help regarding my issue with GDB. I don't know if it matters, but I fired up an old computer running XP. I updated all of the Cygwin software, and tried the same test. It worked fine on XP, but it seems to fail on Win7, at least for me.
FWIW, I tried manually trimming the path to just: $> echo $PATH .:/home/Deans/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin ... $> cygcheck -s Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Aug 22 00:02:07 2014 Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Running under WOW64 on AMD64 Path: . C:\cygwin\home\Deans\bin C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin ... -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/gdb-7-8-consistently-fails-to-run-executable-error-is-dll-path-too-long-tp110722p110800.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple