Re: [ECOS] Turning off gdb

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at cygnus dot co dot uk>]

Sadly, this is a known problem.

The ConfigTool is only officially supported on Windows/NT.
It is known to have problems, including crashing, on Windows/9x.

On 05-Nov-99 Lance Uyehara wrote:
> At 02:30 PM 11/5/99 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>BTW - what version of Windows are you running?  "in win32" doesn't really
>>say much.  
> 
> I'm running win98. I was specifying win32 because I didn't want to get a
> bunch of replies regarding how to do this in linux.
> 
> I'm running configuration tool 1.2.9 if that helps you guys to eliminate
> the crash.
> 
> -Lance
> 
>>
>>On 05-Nov-99 Lance Uyehara wrote:
>>> At 08:39 PM 11/5/99 +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>>>>Lance Uyehara wrote:
>>>>> At 09:55 AM 11/3/99 -0800, Lance Uyehara wrote:
>>>>> >I'm trying to build a minimum sized ecos codeset, and have run into some
>>>>> >odd behavior in the configuration tool.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >Since CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_THREAD_SUPPORT and
>>>>> >CYGDBG_KERNEL_DEBUG_GDB_THREAD_SUPPORT require each other, I can't turn
>>> off
>>>>> >either without crashing the configuration tool (in win32).
>>>>
>>>>It crashes the config tool? Obviously that shouldn't happen. Does it
>>>>actually cause an application error? What if you disable "Suggest fixes for
>>>>consistency check failures" under Tools->Options, does that allow you to
>>>>unset them both? Or possibly set the "Check rules" in the same place to
>>>>"Never".
>>> 
>>> Selecting "Never" allows me to change both places.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>> 
>>> -Lance
>>> 
>>>>
>>>>What *should* happen is that disabling one of them should pop up a dialog
>>>>box saying something like "Yadayada requires foobarfoobar, disable? Yes/No"
>>>>
>>>>> >But I look in the .cfg file and see nothing which I associate with these
>>>>> >settings. So how can I turn this off in the configuration tool?
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess the real question is what are the names of the things to put into
>>>>> the .cfg file to turn off settings in the configuration tool (win32).
> Using
>>>>> -enable and -disable.
>>>>
>>>>When you have saved the configuration, you can manually edit the options by
>>>>going into the build tree directory (i.e. the place you saved the
>>>>configuration), and editting the pkgconf/hal.h file. The two options you
> are
>>>>after can be disabled in there.
>>>>
>>>>Jifl
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