From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:08:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [lia64-sim] Re: [Linux-ia64] ski and gcc-3.x Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:35:35 +1100, Matt Chapman said: Matt> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:23:22PM -0800, David Mosberger Matt> wrote: >> I'm afraid you'll be out of luck without X: you _can_ run in >> batch-mode without X, but then you don't get the debugger. If >> you want the debugger, there must be a way to create a simulated >> console and that's done by starting a slave xterm. Without X, >> that's hard to do. If I work remotely, I use ssh X forwarding to >> prevent this problem. Matt> X forwarding is painful over a modem :) Matt> To get around this, I wrote a small program that sits in place Matt> of xterm (I put it first in my path with a wrapper script). Matt> It relays to a pty device; I then connect to the slave device Matt> with another program like screen or minicom. Matt> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~matthewc/files/fake-xterm.c Heh, that's neat. --david