Re: insight Digest 14 Jun 2001 22:30:35 -0000 Issue 393

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

Ian


> I'm finding yet more and more local changes to Tcl to make it play 
> nicely
> with Insight running from the build directory (the ones for launching
> Tcl in tclInitScript.h).
>
> Is anybody going to mind if I install a script at build time to run
> gdb out of the build directory.  Maybe call it run-insight.sh or 
> something.
> Everything works other than typing ./gdb in the build directory,
> I'm not sure if this is worth all the code changes vs. a 7 line
> shell script.

If you want to do this, fine...  But you want BOTH "run gdb from the 
build directory" and "debug a version of gdb from the build directory", 
since

gdb run-insight.sh

is probably not going to do what you want...

I actually think that the changes I made to get this all to work are 
good, and SHOULD make it back to the SourceForge Tcl.  The basic 
observation is that as long as you don't move the sources around,  the 
tclConfig.sh files KNOW where all the sources are.  So you should look 
for them (they are VERY likely to be local and easy to find when running 
from the build tree), and not do some dopey groping around a couple 
directories up type heuristics to find the sources - which are not 
guaranteed to be anywhere near the build tree.

I tried to argue this with Brent a couple of years back, but I don't 
think anyone at Scriptics at the time much cared about this, and they 
ALWAYS build in the source tree, so this was not much of an issue for 
them.

But, OTOH, I don't work on this stuff any more, so I am not going to 
commit hari kari no matter what you do...

>
> It looks like it would be a good idea to revisit how Insight is
> being launched, making SN location independant made a lot of things
> easier (I was noticing that if I rename my install dir Insight doesn't
> work any more).  But this is probably outside of the scope the Tcl/Tk
> upgrade.
>

Jim
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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
Developer Tools - gdb
Apple Computer