Re: gdb_get_inferior_args

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

John Lowen wrote:
> 
> Fernando,
> This did help some. I do have a SESSION.TCL file and the /share/gdbtcl files have a time-stamp of April 28, 2001. I looked in my build directories under /insight-5.0/gdb/gdbtk/generic and found the C sources to be older than April 18, i.e. Feb.6  to Apr. 14. I am assuming that I am looking at the right things per your instructions. I am using the latest "release" of Insight-5.0 and GDB-5.0. How do I correct this problem? Are there snapshots containing newer gdbtk sources that I can grab and build? Do I need to try to isolate the older binaries and somehow update them? Is there something that can be done to CYGWIN?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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I wonder how these newer /share/gdbtcl files got in there.  Let me guess: you've installed a recent Cygwin snapshot from the net, right?  It comes with GDB and probably a recent one.  It probably installed them at this place and the GDB that you built yourself (the cross one) is also finding them.

You can make these things co-exist by configuring your GDB passing the --prefix argument to "configure".  You can them install your cross GDB in a separate place and it will (should at least) find its own set of '.tcl' files.  If you add the bin directory of this alternative install tree to your path it will not bother you at all having it installed in a different place.

There were some nice stable snapshots some time ago.  The very recent ones will get the recent restructuring that Keith is doing so they may have (or not) some glitches.  If you browse through the list archives you'll see people mentioning that they grabbed snapshot XXXXXX and that things are fine.  See if you still can get one of those.

Good luck,
Fernando  












> >>> Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com> 06/04 1:02 PM >>>
> John Lowen wrote:
> >
> > I have built a CYGWIN version of Insight for the sh-elf target (Windows 98/CYGWIN host) and it seems to be working ok. The problem that I have is when I try to exit the program via the File/Exit menu or by the close button, I receive the following error:
> >
> > Error: invalid command name "gdb_get_inferior_args"
> >
> > I have also successfully built Insight for the same target using a Linux host and it does not exhibit this behavior. I did notice a thread about a patch releated to inferior args and was wondering if it has anything to do with the problem that I am experiencing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> 
> You must have a newer version of the '.tcl' files installed in the $INSTALL/share/gdbtcl directory that is being found by older binaries in your Cygwin system.
> 
> Check if you have a file "session.tcl" somewhere in there.  If you have, your C sources in gdbtk/generic must be newer than April 18, 2001 (if not, you have an newer, so incompatible, gdbtcl library installed).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
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