RE: gdb hangs on a 486

["Scott Prive" <Scott dot Prive at storigen dot com>]

Agreed. CPU specific-packages for obsolete platforms are not needed, and my remark was not intended to suggest something far less than this. 

What I meant was, in SETUP.EXE provide some warning to the end user that the packages they have selected will not run on their CPU. Allow them to continue if they acknowledge the warning. 

Imagine waiting for install to complete (probably on 56K), and then realize it's i586+ only. Having a check in the installer means you only "wasted" a ~250Kb download.

-Scott




> -----Original Message-----
> From: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com [mailto:lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:32 PM
> To: Scott Prive; cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: gdb hangs on a 486
> 
> 
> Hm, an interesting thought.  This would require packages to 
> provide some information, probably in their setup.hint, to 
> indicate their configuration target.  Could work.  But unless
> there are packages that are configured specifically for other 
> than the default "i686", I don't think it would be a feature 
> that would get much use.  But I'm willing to be proven wrong on 
> this. :-)
> 
> Larry
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Scott Prive Scott.Prive@storigen.com
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:06:22 -0500
> To: lhall@rfk.com, cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net, cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: gdb hangs on a 486
> 
> 
> 
> > At this point, I think most (all?) Cygwin packages are 
> > configured like this.
> > Whether or not that's true, it's not unwarranted.  There's 
> > good reason to 
> > make use of the newer architectures' capabilities.
> 
> At the risk of asking for Yet Another Feature ... and I'm 
> thinking out loud
> more than anything else... it would be friendly for the setup 
> utility to do
> a CPU check vs. the packages you selected.
> 
> I know.. "patches gratefully accepted" 
> (You wouldn't want a patch in C from me. trust me :-)
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >The whole system was downloaded through setup within the past 20
> > >days.  Gdb came up in a windowed rather than command line
> > >version.  After the hang the mouse was dead and the system needed
> > >rebooting.  I normally can run for weeks without reboots.
> > 
> > 
> > gdb -nw
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >Under DJGPP I am running gdb 5.1.1, with no apparent
> > >difficulties.  There the configuration says "i386-pc-msdosdjgpp"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sounds like you may want to get the source, reconfigure, and 
> > build your
> > own version targeting i386 or i486.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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