Re: Insight 5.0 on Linux

[Syd Polk <spolk at redhat dot com>]

"Dennis K. Peters" wrote:
> 
> Hi Insight team,
> 
> I have two questions, both of which are probably FAQ, but I couldn't find
> an FAQ on your web site so I've got to ask them.
> 
> 1) I'm trying to upgrade my existing Linux (Slackware 7.0) system to use
> Insight 5.0. It seems that the distribution comes with a bunch of stuff
> that I already have and in some cases have more recent versions of (e.g. I
> have tcl 8.0.5 installed, the distribution comes with tcl 8.0.4). I'm
> reluctant to install over these existing versions, particularly if it
> means going backwards in version numbers, so I'd like to use what I've
> already got, but the confgure/make doesn't seem to use what I have. Is
> there an easy way to just build and install the new gdb executable (and
> corresponding documentation etc.), and be informed if I'm missing anything
> else. (Isn't this the way configure usually works?)
> 


Insight requires the version of tcl/tk that it uses. It is happy to
co-exist with an existing installation; you should build it with

./configure --prefix=/usr/redhat/insight

and put /usr/redhat/insight/bin in your path.

This also has the nice effect that you won't overwrite the gdb version
that comes with RH.

> 2) Having built successfully, but not installed, I've tested it in my the
> build directory. It seems to work fine if I start it in a (bash) shell in
> the foreground, but if I background the process (i.e., "gdb <file> &"),
> when I click the 'run' icon it loops forever. (The first statement in the
> program I'm debugging is of the form 'cout << "This program ...', if that's
> important.)

Insight will not work if executed in background. It is really hard to
get it to work that way, as every different operating system has really
bizarre ways to do pseudo-terminals.
 
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
> 
> Dennis Peters
> 
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