Re: Q: Sun DBX fixes for DDD

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: Q: Sun DBX fixes for DDD, Andrew Gaylard said (at 8:32pm...:

> I'm concerned that the HAVE_SUNDBX won't be set unless the person
> building the code knows to do it.
>
> - Will these fixes break other dbx versions if they are not
>  protected by HAVE_SUNDBX?  (I know that Tru64 and Irix use dbx,
>  and perhaps other Unixes too.)
> - If so, then perhaps an autoconf setting would ease the build process:
>  "--enable-sun-dbx" or something similar.
> - If not, then we can remove them.
>
> I'm reluctant to have this setting detected by autoconf, since
> many ddd users will run it on one platform via rsh or ssh to their
> target platform where the inferior debugger runs.  Thus if a non-
> Solaris machine runs ddd and connects to a Solaris machine with
> dbx, then it has no way of knowing...

It's been a long time since I looked at the code, but at one time didn't
ddd try to autodetect which flavor of DBX it was talking to?   IIRC it
sent certain commands to dbx to see how it would respond, and then
instantiated a specific subclass of the main "how to deal with DBX" class.

Tim
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