Re: no gui when gdb launched

[Bob Waskosky <bobski at tds dot net>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:29:39PM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Bob Waskosky wrote:
> 
> > Hi Kieth,
> > Running ./gdb from the source dir worked fine. I'm assuming I can just copy
> > that to my /usr/bin dir. I do notice an error when I do ./gdb -nw from
> > the source dir though. I get the following error..
> 
> Ok, sounds like an installation error. You will need to do a "make 
> install" to get insight (and all of its wonderous support files) 
> installed. I would recommend putting these in /usr/local (the default) or 
> something. I would not suggest that you simply copy the EXE from the 
> build dir to where you would like it installed.
> 
> Insight knows where it should find its support files (tcl, tk, tix, itcl, 
> etc) (sorry -- you MUST use the versions that came with the insight 
> tarball you downloaded), so doing a "make install" is necessary. You can 
> always move all of that stuff later. It is the paths relative to the 
> exe's path which matters.
> 
> > This GDB was configured as "i586-pc-linux-gnu".
> > Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
> > =2Egdbinit:5: Error in sourced command file:
> > No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
> > (gdb)=20
> > 
> > What does this mean? I'm a bit of a newb with gdb.
> 
> When you run gdb in its build dir, it is loading ./.gdbinit, a gdb script 
> which will get you ready to debug gdb on itself. This script presumes you 
> will do "./gdb -nw gdb", so the error you are seeing is gdb complaining 
> that the script (generated at configure time) is attempting to do 
> something which requires a symbol table (probably setting a breakpoint).
> 
> The error is harmless though. You can tell gdb not to load this 
> preference file by passing "-nx", too.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
Hi Keith,
I had already run make install but got a bunch of 'nothing to be done'
messages presumably because I already had the gdb rpm installed. I
removed the rpm and then did make install again and everything is fine now.
Thanks for the help
Bob
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