From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12674 invoked by alias); 9 May 2003 20:31:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12614 invoked from network); 9 May 2003 20:31:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 May 2003 20:31:40 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h49KVeH27715; Fri, 9 May 2003 16:31:40 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h49KVdI26695; Fri, 9 May 2003 16:31:39 -0400 Received: from [150.1.200.14] (vpn50-70.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.70]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h49KVc805917; Fri, 9 May 2003 16:31:39 -0400 Subject: Re: problems trying to install insight From: Keith Seitz To: David Carlton Cc: gdb , "insight@sources.redhat.com" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052512522.1658.6.camel@lindt.uglyboxes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 20:31:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00157.txt.bz2 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