Cygwin problems

Cygwin problems

[yyyyy50]

Greetings,

I am running cygwin on Windows XP SP1 as a very restricted user. 
Basically I have configured this as tight as I could possibly think of 
and I am probably running into problems because of this.  

I downloaded insight-6.1, built and installed it into /usr/local, no 
changes to configure or anything, just:
$ cd insight-6.1 ; ./configure && make
... as root (Administrator under cygwin):
# cd ~user/insight-6.1 ; make install

When I run gdb, and it is the right one, since "which" tells me so, I get 
the command line gdb but no window interface, even if I run gdb -windows. 
 

I have a gdbtk.ini file in the user's home directory.

Using filemon, gdb seems to want to open .gdbinit but if I copy gdbtk.ini 
to .gdbinit, I get an error at line 2 in the file and still only the 
command line interface.  

I finally got the UI up by running:
$ gdb --interpreter=insight

...and it seems to work until I try to view registers once the program 
that I am trying to debug is stopped at a breakpoint.  I then get a GDB 
message box that says:  

"gdbarch.c:3906: internal-error: 
gdbarch_deprecated_register_convertable: Assertion `gdbarch-
>deprecated_register_convertible != NULL' failed.  
A problem internal to GDB has been detected, further debugging may prove 
unreliable.  
Quit this debugging session?"

If I say "No", I keep getting this message.

What's going on??

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Cygwin problems

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 14:27, yyyyy50@hotpop.com wrote:

> I downloaded insight-6.1, built and installed it into /usr/local, no 
> changes to configure or anything, just:
> $ cd insight-6.1 ; ./configure && make
> ... as root (Administrator under cygwin):
> # cd ~user/insight-6.1 ; make install

6.1 is hosed. There have been patches to gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-register.c
to fix the internal-error. Get them.

I believe there is an error in the toplevel configure (src/configure.in)
which causes insight not to be built on cygwin. I haven't had the time
to chase down the exact problem (it works on linux, but not cygwin).

Nonetheless, I think the following patch will fix it. Apply to
src/configure.in and regenerate configure. You should now see an
"insight" executable.

Keith

PS. Please understand the insight is a bit screwed up right now. It is
nearing completion of a long-awaited official FSF contribution. When
that happens, things should get a lot better.

Re: Cygwin problems

[Keith Seitz]

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On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 09:45, Keith Seitz wrote:
> Nonetheless, I think the following patch will fix it. Apply to
> src/configure.in and regenerate configure. You should now see an
> "insight" executable.

[cough]

Attached.

Keith

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Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.207
diff -u -p -r1.207 configure.in
--- configure.in	24 Mar 2004 22:34:31 -0000	1.207
+++ configure.in	29 Apr 2004 16:47:57 -0000
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ esac
 
 # Host dirs don't like to share a cache file either, horribly enough.
 # This seems to be due to autoconf 2.5x stupidity.
-host_configargs="--cache-file=./config.cache --build=${build_alias} --host=${host_alias} --target=${target_alias} ${extra_host_args} ${baseargs}"
+host_configargs="${cache_file_option} --build=${build_alias} --host=${host_alias} --target=${target_alias} ${extra_host_args} ${baseargs}"
 
 target_configargs=${baseargs}