request

request

[Valentin Kouznetsov]

Dear colleagues,
I'm very imperessed by your product and would like to extend it.
Currently our collaboration (I'm physicist) using the KAI C++
compiler. The KAI provides a own version of gdb which is making
aware of KAI C++ mangled names (otherwise gdb is useless). I would
like to compile Insight with this particular code of gdb.
I didn't found any words how to do it when I downloaded a latest
snapshot of Insight from your site. Could you please provide
instruction and I can try to do it by myself and give you 
feedback.

Best regards,
Valentine.

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Re: request

[James Ingham]

Valentin,

This depends on how different your version of gdb is from the main
trunk of gdb. 

Insight calls into gdb in a number of places, and also relies on a set 
of "hook" functions that get called when interesting things happen
inside gdb.  If your version is a variant of a fairly recent get, it
should be simple to add the support files (just look at the difference 
between a checkout of gdb, and of insight from sourceware.cygnus.com
to see what this is), and the gdbtk directory, fix up the Makefiles,
and go...

However, if your source tree is old then there could be a lot of
problems...  You will just have to put the two source trees
side-by-side and try a merge...  If you know what version of gdb your
gdb derives from, you could try a three-way merge using the common
origin point as ancestor.  I always do this in XEmacs, using its diff
with ancestor functionality.  You find this from the menu in
"Tools->merge->directories with Ancestor".

Hope this helps,

Jim

 > Dear colleagues,
 > I'm very imperessed by your product and would like to extend it.
 > Currently our collaboration (I'm physicist) using the KAI C++
 > compiler. The KAI provides a own version of gdb which is making
 > aware of KAI C++ mangled names (otherwise gdb is useless). I would
 > like to compile Insight with this particular code of gdb.
 > I didn't found any words how to do it when I downloaded a latest
 > snapshot of Insight from your site. Could you please provide
 > instruction and I can try to do it by myself and give you 
 > feedback.
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > Valentine.
 > 
 > *************************************************************
 > * Valentine Kouznetsov    phone : (630) 840 2192(8596)      *     
 > * Fermilab MS352          fax   : (630) 840 8886            *
 > * P.O.Box 500             e-mail: vkuznet@fnal.gov          *
 > * Batavia IL, 60510         http://www-d0.fnal.gov/~vkuznet *
 > *************************************************************
 > 
 >