Re: Next Release Status

On 12/15/2011 06:22 AM, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> Hi Keith/Christopher,
>
>
>> On 11/08/2011 04:16 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>          Actually, I've been able to build this without much effort.  I just
>>          don't like the current state of affairs wrt cygwin tcl/tk and insight so
>>          I haven't been motivated to make a release.
>
> Would you please share instructions on how to build Insight against
> GDB-7.x?

Insight *is* gdb: they both live in the same executable. To build 
Insight against GDB X.Y, just grab source from that genre and build it. 
Or grab the insight bits and stick it into the source tree.

I will be doing an official insight release shortly after gdb releases 7.4.

> We are using it in fashion of ICE debugging with QEMU and gdb-6.8 seem
> to have debug issues with recent toolchains. I would appreciate a new
> release.

6.8 is ancient. Please use something newer. Just checkout CVS/GIT HEAD 
and build it. That's what I've been using for over ten years, and I 
seldom have any problems.

> The other 2 options to Insight that we have seen are DDD and Eclipse. I
> think neither are good replacements. Insight is just very fast and
> easier to use than both.

I agree. ;-)

> We don't use cygwin at all. Plain debugging of a remote QEMU ARM target
> in linux.

Then you're in good shape, since I run Fedora locally, and linux pretty 
much always works.

Keith