Re: insight builds with no errors on OSX, but gdb not! being built ...

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hi ,


>> I realised that you're trying to build Insight for debugging Mac OS X
>> applications. There are some peculiarities about Mac OS X, e.g., the
>> use of Mach-O object files instead of ELF object files due to
>> Darwin's Mach heritance. Apple keeps modified versions of gcc and gdb
>> at www.opensource.apple.com, and I don't think that these
>> modifications are considered in Insight. I can't think of any other
>> operating system that still uses Mach-O besides Mac OS X.

>   Ah, that's just what I was going to point out in the 'other mail' I said I'd
> be sending.  I don't know whether the apple version of gdb includes insight or
> not, but if it doesn't, you could always try crudely wedging together the
> apple gdb sources and the insight-specific subdirs and see if it works.  The
> insight GUI is well enough decoupled from the gdb application that it might
> work, or at any rate might work well enough to be getting on with.  For
> instructions on how to munge an insight build into an existing gdb source
> tree, see
> http://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2004-q3/msg00009.html

ok, it's official. yuck! all i wanted was pretty GUI to gdb ... sigh.

my 1st inclination is to checkout DATA DISPLAY DEBUGGER
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd, to see if i fare any better, but wonder
whether the apple-specific garbage will again hoist me on my own petard.

i have zero interest in being the sole flunky with this goal ... so
before i start flailing about --  how much interest IS there (here, or
elsewhere) in getting insight playing nice with gdb on OSX?

cheers,

richard

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