Re: Tcl/Tk 8.3 upgrade...

[Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Ian Roxborough wrote:

> 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.

I wouldn't like that, to be honest. That would mean I would have to
install insight before I can debug it... That's not very developer
friendly. What other problems are you hitting?

> 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.

I am playing with configury/automake for insight. This will completely rip
insight out of the gdb directory. Alas, it is very complicated. I will
need to test this on a great many machines before I can check it in.

Keith