Re: Lets rename insight to "insight" (imagine that)

[cgd@sibyte.com (Chris G. Demetriou)]

mdejong@cygnus.com (Mo DeJong) writes:
> Some on disk numbers from my build:
> 
> ls -la ~/project/install/insight/bin/gdb
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 mo       mo        8797610 Oct 26 09:36 /home/mo/project/install/insight/bin/gdb
> 
> % ls -la /usr/bin/gdb
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1290416 Mar  7  2000 /usr/bin/gdb

I get something more like:

33 [highland] gas % ls -la
/usr/local/sbtools-mips64-sb1sim-{1.3.10,1.4.9}/bin/mips64-sb1sim-gdb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root      6003252 Oct  1 18:37 /usr/local/sbtools-mips64-sb1sim-1.3.10/bin/mips64-sb1sim-gdb*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     11415142 Oct 31 05:46 /usr/local/sbtools-mips64-sb1sim-1.4.9/bin/mips64-sb1sim-gdb*
34 [highland] gas % size /usr/local/sbtools-mips64-sb1sim-{1.3.10,1.4.9}/bin/mips64-sb1sim-gdb
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2067527   47893  119652 2235072  221ac0
/usr/local/sbtools-mips64-sb1sim-1.3.10/bin/mips64-sb1sim-gdb
3906670  144000  209788 4260458  41026a
/usr/local/sbtools-mips64-sb1sim-1.4.9/bin/mips64-sb1sim-gdb

(solarisl host, "1.3.10" -> gdb 4.18 + mods, "1.4.9" -> gdb+insight
from head of cvs as of a few weeks ago + mods.  Both include 'sim'
bits.  I can't easily do a head-to-head comparison right now.)


> Insight is a lot bigger than command line gdb.

So, I think i'd disagree that it's _that_ much bigger.  (2x, not 7x.
but it'll change by platform, of course, and with availability of
shlibs, etc.)


> > I think, in general, that's probably the appropriate solution to the
> > issue.
> 
> That would still clobber the existing gdb. It means we can't
> make an RPM for Insight because it would conflict with
> the /usr/bin/gdb executable from regular gdb.

Right, so, if what i proposed previously is deemed to be _not_ the
right solution, then as far as I'm concerned, the code should:

(1) build both gdb and insight binaries in the same source tree
(differing in what code they link against).

(2) install both.

(3) provide configure options to disable build/install of one or the
other.

I'm not sure how spread out the checks for the window system are
though -- it might be Hard to do this.


as has been said by others, when you build insight, you really _do_
build a complete GDB, and that's what you get if you request the
non-windowed version.

It seems ... wasteful and, to me, wrong to require a completely
separate build and install (incl. space for installed binaries) if you
happen to want one version windowed and one version without.


cgd