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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Does anyone actually use insight on Cygwin?

Yes, not regularly but it works fine.

> Keith Seitz, the insight
> maintainer, has recently made changes which will allow insight to work
> with a non-special version of tcl/tk rather than the hacked version that
> it had previously been built with.  That opens the door to building a
> real version of tcl/tk for cygwin and linking insight to it.
> Unfortunately, I believe that would mean that insight would need to run
> in an X window rather than natively.

No problem as far as I'm concerned, I run Cygwin/X all the time to use=20
mrxvt.

> The other alternative is to nuke insight entirely.  Is anyone really
> relying on it?  Since I barely test it when I release gdb, I'd expect
> that there would be problem reports but I don't remember seeing any for
> quite some time.

Not a big issue, one can use XEmacs to have gdb GUI support... not as=20
good but with some customization it can come close to Insight.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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