From: cgd@sibyte.com (Chris G. Demetriou)
To: mdejong@cygnus.com (Mo DeJong)
Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Lets rename insight to "insight" (imagine that)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5titpny3eu.fsf@highland.sibyte.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailpost.974410715.28880@postal.sibyte.com>
mdejong@cygnus.com (Mo DeJong) writes:
> What is the cause of these problems? The unfortunate
> naming of the Insight executable. For some reason
> it is called "gdb". This is in despite of the fact
> that it is clearly not the gdb that most people
> expect to get when typing the command "gdb".
>
> I suggest we change the name of the Insight executable
> to "insight". This will make things far more intuitive
> and will save us time and money in the long run.
>
> I would also like to get Insight installed on the
> default Red Hat release, but that is not currently
> possible because /usr/bin/gdb is already taken.
What is /usr/bin/gdb taken by, if not gdb? and, insight without
windows _is_ gdb, with some extra mostly-unused stuff thrown in, eh?
Well, it seems to me that by default, you want to install
(gdb==insight), under the names gdb and insight, with the former
providing the normal behaviour, and the latter providing windows.
It's a shame to have to waste N more megabytes on a gdb binary, when
insight will do either.
My personal favorite solution (and what I use in my own source trees)
is to:
* whack top.c so that use_windows = 0 by default.
* install as gdb.
* if insight-style windowing support is present, a simple
script called 'insight' to invoke gdb with the -w flag and the
rest of the remaining script arguments.
I think, in general, that's probably the appropriate solution to the
issue.
cgd
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-16 13:38 Mo DeJong
[not found] ` <mailpost.974410715.28880@postal.sibyte.com>
2000-11-16 14:10 ` Chris G. Demetriou [this message]
2000-11-16 14:22 ` Duane Ellis
2000-11-16 14:45 ` Mo DeJong
[not found] ` <mailpost.974414965.29758@postal.sibyte.com>
2000-11-16 15:32 ` Chris G. Demetriou
2000-11-19 3:24 ` Eray Ozkural (exa)
2000-11-16 15:57 ` Eray Ozkural (exa)
[not found] <974414704.20985.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2000-11-16 15:20 ` Jim Ingham
2000-11-16 15:39 ` Mo DeJong
[not found] ` <mailpost.974418021.30668@postal.sibyte.com>
2000-11-16 18:01 ` Chris G. Demetriou
2000-11-16 16:34 Fabrice Gautier
2000-11-19 3:19 ` Eray Ozkural (exa)
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