From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7294 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2009 03:22:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 7283 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jul 2009 03:22:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:22:03 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MO1Fn-000345-Bc for insight@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:21:59 +0000 Received: from 75.139.7.185 ([75.139.7.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:21:59 +0000 Received: from gds by 75.139.7.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:21:59 +0000 To: insight@sources.redhat.com From: Gene Smith Subject: Re: 20090609-cvs bad on linux (build fail cygwin) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <4A37DDE7.4020105@redhat.com> <4A37E6FF.6050909@chartertn.net> <4A37E8E9.7010406@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 In-Reply-To: <4A37E8E9.7010406@redhat.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 Keith Seitz wrote: > Gene Smith wrote: >> But I thought insight has it *own* gdb that never changes? Anyhow, >> here are the step I use to build it: > > No, it does not. Insight CVS uses gdb CVS. Insight 6.8 uses gdb 6.8. > It has its own versions of tcl, tk, itcl, etc, but those are now just > copies of some release (currently 8.4, I think). Except on cygwin, I > do > not use the supplied versions of tcl et al anymore. I use the > system-supplied versions on Fedora. > > Kevin Buettner is working on updating tcl et al CVS on sourceware to > the latest release. > >> Hopefully, this will help. > > I will give this a go by the end of the week. > >> P/S: I am still a bit confused as to whether I should be using the >> "system" supplied tcl/tk or the tcl/tck code from insight. I think I >> am using insight's. If I should use the system tcl/tk, how do I do >> that? > > You can use whatever version you would like to. It has been a goal > ofmine (for quite some time sadly) to eliminate our dependence on a > sourceware-supplied tcl/tk/itcl. That requirement originally came in > the days of Tcl 8.1, when we carried a bunch of local patches to Tcl. > We didn't upgrade sourceware Tcl until 8.4 (or was it 8.3?) and our > supplied version of Tcl became identical to upstream. > > A little while ago, I got around to eliminating the requirement for > sourceware-supplied Tcl. But it remains for historical reasons (and > because cygwin still requires it). If we got cygwin "fixed", I guess > we could just simply eliminate it altogether from the repo if no other > project was using it. I think winavr project distributes a mingw build of insight. I am pretty sure mingw has no "system" tcl/tk. However, I don't think many (or any?) winavr or users use it. > > Keith Thanks for explaining all this! Now I see. But since you didn't tell me how to select "system" tcl/tk vs. built-in I assume you don't think that is related to my problem.