Next Release Status

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

Given some demand, I am planning on doing an official release of Insight 
sometime just after the GDB 7.4 release (process starting soon).

My primary goals for this release (largely just an update/bugfixes) are 
that it build/work on Linux (my platform), MinGW, and Cygwin.

I spent some time this weekend rummaging around the sources attempting 
to get this stuff working. Here's a little status report on my progress.

Linux: builds and runs okay. Found a memory corruption bug in the 
register window (affects all hosts). Needs to be fixed before release.

MinGW: Had patches lying around to get build working, but I forgot. So I 
re-invented the wheel. No big deal. I will check these in. There is, 
however, a startup problem with libgui on this platform. It complains 
about being unable to find pkgIndex.tcl. Hopefully, not too painful to fix.

Cygwin: This is the nightmare. Tcl et al are completely broken. Instead 
of using my ancient Windows 2000 box, I have installed a VM on my linux 
box and put a modern Windows installation in there. Now I see all the 
problems that people have reported throughout the years that I could 
never reproduce! Example: conflicts with winsock & Cygwin's posix layer. 
Ouch. Currently, this is the only platform for which I do not have a 
working build.

I hope over the next few weeks, leading up to the GDB 7.4 release, to 
get these problems resolved. If you'd like to help (especially with 
Cygwin!), please let me know.

If anyone has any other peeves or important bugs, please also let me 
know, and I will try to address them before this next release.

Keith