From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28516 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2006 08:47:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 28508 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Feb 2006 08:47:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:47:07 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 89637544001; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:47:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:47:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror Message-ID: <20060206084704.GW15572@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200602041435.k14EZ6NK016329@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060205001503.GB8728@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060205193440.GB4718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060205224414.GA9733@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060206051451.GA15411@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00123.txt.bz2 On Feb 6 02:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Christopher Faylor > wa However, it should be > quite clear that, since Cygwin is a coherent system of tools that need > to work together, [...] That's a misconception. You're mixing Cygwin, the distribution with Cygwin, the DLL. Take a tool and the libraries it's linked against, and you're all set. > When I considered installing the Cygwin GDB, the questions that bugged > me were like "will gdbtui work without the Cygwin terminal/rxvt/whatever?", Yes it works, like every other Cygwin CLI tool, in the standard Windows console. Why should it be different? > "will Insight work without Xfree86?" No, you never needed XFree86 for Insight since the Tcltk package is Windows GUI based, and it is so for since its beginnings. > "do I need Bash or other > packages installed, and what are those packages?" No. > , etc. I didn't find > answers to those questions, and AFAICS (although I cannot say I > searched too hard) those answers still aren't available today; You could have asked. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat