Re: insight won't debug my program

["Martin M. Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:02, Martin Alley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to debug a program on RedHat 9 (to which I am fairly new).
> I have downloaded, made and installed Insight/gdb5.3 (./configure,
> ./make, ./make install)
> 
> I want to try "debugging" the monop demo C program.
> I have set up the debugger to run monop, and the working directory is
> that of monop.
> 
> The xterm field is set to xterm -e
> When I click debug, an xterm window comes up with the following
> contents:
> "
> xterm: Can't execvp -T: No such file or directory
> [martin@rh9 monop]$
> "
>  
> 
> I get the insight source window, set a breakpoint at the first
> executable line in main, and hit run - insight then hangs. (cursor is
> watch symbol).
> 
> I have left the command to run insight as insight - not changed it to
> gdb in contradiction to the readme instructions with sourcenavigator.
> 
> 
> How do I troubleshoot my problem?

I don't have a copy of 5.3 around, but I don't recall an xterm field,
just a checkbox.  Does Insight work if you don't use xterm?

Can run debug your program with GDB?

-- 
Martin M. Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
Red Hat Inc.