gdb/insight

[Russel Ross]

Are there any help resources for building/installing insight (the gdb
gui interface)?

I am able to build gdb and insight out of the box.  But there seems to
be a problem with installation of insight.  In particular there seems to
be a misconfiguration in the install directories for the version of Tcl
insight uses.

In order to get insight to install with "make install", I had to change
the following line in (plus 4 others)

/usr/src/insight-5.0/itcl/iwidgets3.0.0/unix/Makefile:

from
TCL_SRC_DIR = /usr/src/bs/BUILD/tcltk-8.3.1/tcl-8.3.1
to
TCL_SRC_DIR = /usr/src/insight-5.0/tcl


When running gdb with gdb -w, I get the following:



Can't find a usable main.tcl in the following directories: 
    /usr/local/share/gdbtcl /usr/local/gdbtcl /usr/local/gdb/gdbtk/library 
/usr/local/gdb1.0/gdbtk/library

/usr/local/share/gdbtcl/main.tcl: can't read "errMsg": no such variable
can't read "errMsg": no such variable
    while executing
"tk_messageBox -title Error -message "Could not find the Iwidgets libraries.
Got nameofexec: [info nameofexecutable]
Error(s) were: \n$errMsg"  -icon e..."
    invoked from within
"if {![find_iwidgets_library]} {
  tk_messageBox -title Error -message "Could not find the Iwidgets libraries.
Got nameofexec: [info nameofexecutable]
...."
    (file "/usr/local/share/gdbtcl/main.tcl" line 53)
    invoked from within
"source /usr/local/share/gdbtcl/main.tcl"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel \#0 [list source $file]"


This probably means that gdb wasn't installed properly.

    while executing
"error $msg"
    (procedure "tcl_findLibrary" line 84)
    invoked from within
"tcl_findLibrary gdb 1.0 {} main.tcl GDBTK_LIBRARY GDBTK_LIBRARY gdbtk/library 
gdbtcl {} $debug_startup"
    (procedure "gdbtk_find_main" line 11)
    invoked from within
"gdbtk_find_main"