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From: "Richard Stanton" <stanton AT Haas DOT Berkeley DOT EDU>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: gdb won't run in GUI mode under NT
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:32:09 -0700
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Followup:

The failure occurs if I type "gdb" at a 4NT command line. If, instead, at
the command line I type "sh" to get a sh prompt, and then type "gdb", it
fires up in GUI mode just fine.

It always used to work from 4NT. Has something changed?

Richard Stanton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Stanton [mailto:stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 11:39 AM
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: gdb won't run in GUI mode under NT
>
>
> I just reinstalled cygwin from scratch on an NT4 machine, running
> "setup" at the command prompt, and downloading everything from
> the Internet, including gdb-20000610.tar.gz.
>
> All is installed fine, and runs perfectly, except gdb. This runs
> fine in an EMAS window (i.e. in text mode), but if I run "gdb" at
> a command prompt, I never get the GUI window, and my machine
> slows to a crawl with the gdb process occupying 99% of CPU time
> until killed.
>
> Sometimes, I get a huge error box, telling me things like:
>
> ---------------
>
> Can't find a usable main.tcl in [various directories...]
>
> Can't find combobox 1.0...
>
> Probably means gdb wasn't installed properly.
>
> ---------------
>
> Any idea what's wrong?
>
> Richard Stanton
>


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