From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Cc: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Proposal: --with-gdb-interpreter=... --interpreter=... Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:39:00 -0000 Message-id: <37BB5209.BD61A49@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00072.html Hello, We're now starting to see the situtation where GDB can support multiple interpreters. At present there is GDB's traditional CLI, the TUI (from HP) and TCL/TK. We've had many threads of Python, Perl, Java, Visual Basic and evey guile interpreters comming in down the track. What I'd like to do is set in motion change that should greatly simplify the integration of various interpreters. Accordingly I'd like to propose the following changes: o configure ... --with-gdb-interpreter= ... This allows the user to specify the interpreter (in addition to the default CLI) that is built and linked into GDB. The configury assumes that there is a directory .../gdb/ that contains all the useful bits (Makefile stub, sourcecode, ...). o a new option ``--interpreter=...'' that can be used to specify the interpreter to use during startup. Andrew PS: I need to check that --with is the correct option.