Hm, an interesting thought. This would require packages to provide some information, probably in their setup.hint, to indicate their configuration target. Could work. But unless there are packages that are configured specifically for other than the default "i686", I don't think it would be a feature that would get much use. But I'm willing to be proven wrong on this. :-)
Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Scott Prive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:06:22 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: gdb hangs on a 486 > At this point, I think most (all?) Cygwin packages are > configured like this. > Whether or not that's true, it's not unwarranted. There's > good reason to > make use of the newer architectures' capabilities. At the risk of asking for Yet Another Feature ... and I'm thinking out loud more than anything else... it would be friendly for the setup utility to do a CPU check vs. the packages you selected. I know.. "patches gratefully accepted" (You wouldn't want a patch in C from me. trust me :-) > > > > >The whole system was downloaded through setup within the past 20 > >days. Gdb came up in a windowed rather than command line > >version. After the hang the mouse was dead and the system needed > >rebooting. I normally can run for weeks without reboots. > > > gdb -nw > > > > >Under DJGPP I am running gdb 5.1.1, with no apparent > >difficulties. There the configuration says "i386-pc-msdosdjgpp" > > > > Sounds like you may want to get the source, reconfigure, and > build your > own version targeting i386 or i486. > > > > > Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
