Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/08/04/22:51:55
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 08:33:15PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Does anyone actually use insight on Cygwin?
>
> I do. I am a complete idiot when it comes to using gdb in "normal" mode.
> Without insight, I'm lost.
>
>> 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.
>
> Not a problem for me; I don't mind running an Xserver. And I routinely run
> both cygwin's very old Xserver and the 'free' XMing version.
>
>
> However, I remember this issue came up several years ago. There were a few
> arguments in favor of the hacked tcl/tk version of insight:
>
> (1) How do you debug the Xserver if your debugger depends on it?
>
> (2) Red Hat's paying customers expected a standalone debugger, and would
> balk at a Xserver requirement.
Neither of the above is particularly important. You have the same
problem using insight to debug an X server on linux. And, if Red Hat
wants a standalone version they can certainly provide one. It's a Red
Hat employee who is making the current changes to insight after all.
cgf
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