Re: Compiling the latest GDB on cygwin

[Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>]

Jingzhao Ou wrote:

> I want to make some contribution. Currently, Insight ships with its
> own version of tcl/tk. Also, it still relies on libgui. Could you
> comment on the possibilities and the amount of work required if I want
> Insight to build based on the official tcl/tk and to remove its
> dependence of libgui?

We ship insight with standard tcl/tk/itcl. All that is really required 
is updating the configure scripts to check for a system version and use 
it instead of the supplied ones.

As for libgui, what we need to do is steal whatever we need from that 
and dump the rest. I haven't a clue how much insight actually uses, but 
it would be an interesting exercise to figure this out, and see what we 
can do to stop using whatever remains.

I any case, I don't see a compelling reason to dump whatever is in 
libgui unless someone really has some time on his hands. Insight is 
currently the only consumer of libgui, and I'm the maintainer, so we can 
do whatever we want (or don't want with it).

Keith