[Bashdb-devel] Bashdb-devel digest, Vol 1 #44 - 1 msg

[R. B. <ro...@pa...>]

Erhy Happ reports:
 >   my computer is running with Windows 2000 and because my UNIX interests
 > I installed mingw und msys.
 > Is there any chance to compile and/or run bashdb like sh.exe of msys ?

sh in msys is bash version 2.04; rebash, the debugger-enabled bash, is
based on bash 2.05b. Since version 2.04 is a bit old, I've always
assumed that there was a reason the mingw folks decided to use 2.04
instead of 2.05x. Perhaps bash 2.04 has fewer dependencies.

rebash does compile and run under cygwin. So that's one way to get
bash debugging in Windows 2000.

As for whether there is a chance to compile and run bashdb under
sh.exe or msys, it requires someone to take the interest to do
so. Given that it works under cygwin (well, actually some of the
regression tests fail), I don't have interest undertaking
this. However if someone else does (perhaps yourself), I don't see any
reason not to include it, provided things are done in a relatively
clean way.

 > 
 > I'm also not able to compile the sources of sh.exe in the msys project.
 > It seems the reason are the same like:
 >     eval.c:252: `SIGALRM' undeclared (first use in this function)

I think you'd probably have to ask the mingw about that.