eclipse + cdt + cygwin = hours of misery! hooray!

Holy dammit Christmas, every step along the way to debug a simple hello world app is an exercise in misery.

• it appears to have found make/gcc/etc... but then won't actually run anything. Launching eclipse via a batch script that adds c:\cygwin\bin to the path before starting eclipse fixes this. It would have been nice if eclipse threw up more red flags about not finding the things it needed.
  
• I get everything building, launch the debugger and it complains that it can't find the source file. This was answered by the FAQ... once I found the FAQ.
  

I hate that I didn't think to look for the FAQ as the first step. I hate that the top google search results were all 3 or more years out of date. I hate Eclipse's web site -- it's as bad as my employer's intranet site.