From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
To: David Carlton <carlton@bactrian.org>
Cc: gdb <gdb@sources.redhat.com>,
"insight@sources.redhat.com" <insight@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: problems trying to install insight
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 20:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052512522.1658.6.camel@lindt.uglyboxes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3smrnyj7e.fsf@papaya.bactrian.org>
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 13:10, David Carlton wrote:
> I'm trying to install insight by hand. So I kept on running it and,
> whenever I got an error message about not being able to find a certain
> file, I copied it to one of the suggested locations. I think I did
> this for tcl, libgui, tk, itcl, and ik, but I may be missing
> something.
Why not just use "make install-gdb"? (Just curious)
> Eventually, I got to a state where I didn't get any complaints, but
> insight just exited without printing anything at all. Running it
> within GDB, I found that it was trying to print out the error message:
>
> Can't find a usable main.tcl in the following directories:
> /usr/local/share/insight1.0 /usr/local/lib/insight1.0
> /usr/lib/insight1.0 /usr/local/library /usr/library
> /usr/insight/library /insight/
>
> and failing.
>
> I'm not at all familiar with the relevant parts of GDB's code (or with
> any of insight's code), else I'd try to fix it myself. If somebody
> thinks it's appropriate, I'll file a bug (under GDB or under insight?
> I'm not sure who is losing the message).
As I recall, this was a tough thing to solve. Maybe things have changed
now? I'll revisit.
> Incidentally, if possible it would be nice if the error message for a
> missing iwidgets were a bit more informative, too.
I'll double-check that. Let me guess: it just gives the standard tcl
error. Hmm. Maybe I should change all of the package requires to give a
less verbose tcl error message and a more human error message.
Thanks for peeking at it.
Keith
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