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Re: Insight help not working
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: Keith Rubow <keith dot microaide at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: insight at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:54:16 -0800
- Subject: Re: Insight help not working
- References: <45B68D7F.8020902@earthlink.net>
Keith Rubow wrote:
I am running arm-elf-insight from the WinARM toolchain. It says it is
version 6.5.50.20060612-csv. It also reports (Help->About) that This GDB
was configured as "--host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=arm-elf". When I try
to get help (Help->Help Topics), all I get is a dialog box that says
"Error: invalid command name "ide_shell_execute"".
Hmm. Mingw. I didn't even think you could build gdb with that host. I
have an older version of insight from July on a windows box, but it's a
cygwin host. It works there.
That doesn't really, help, I know. But let me see if I can guess what
the problem is...
In your build directory, go to libgui/src. In there should be a file
called "tclshellexe.o" (or ".obj"). If you run objdump --disassemble on
it, does it come up empty?
If so, then the problem is probably because cygwin defines (or somehow
it gets defined) "_WIN32" (the whole of tclshellexe.c is wrapped in this
define). My guess is that for mingw32, it is wrong. Try changing the
ifdef (or whacking it for your local build), and reinstall and see if
that works.
If not, well, I'm not sure. But I'll bet I'm close. :-)
I cannot get any help topics listed. I cannot find any help or
documentation on insight anywhere. Where can I find documentation, or
how can I get the help to work?
You can also peruse a copy of the documentation online at
http://sourceware.org/insight/help/ . It might be out of date, I don't
know. Or you can simply point your web browser at
$INSTALL_DIR/share/insight1.0/help/index.html to get the online help
that insight installed when it was built/installed.
Keith