Re: What does thios error mean

Re: What does thios error mean

[Keith Seitz]

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Stephen P. Smith wrote:

> When a friend is running an older version of GDB, he is getting this 
> error message:
>  Error: text doesn't contain any characters tagged with "_show_variable"
> 
> What is the usual cause of this?


Text hover in the source window is supposed to cause a little balloon to 
appeara with the value of the variable over which the mouse is hovering.


When this happens for the first time the mouse is moved, a tag is added 
to the variable. Then when the mouse stops moving, the tag is consulted 
and the value is put into the balloon and displayed. Looks like there's 
abug in this area (namely, it is possible for the tag to have become 
invalid).

What version of insight is this? Got a testcase?

Keith

Re: What does thios error mean

[Stephen P. Smith]

/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/gdb-current/configure 
--prefix=/usr/local/bleeding-edge-gdb --target=powerpc-motorola-elf 
--host=i686-pc-cygwin --build=i686-pc-cygwin
make
make install
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/build-insight-powerpc-motorola-elf/dejagnu'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/build-insight-powerpc-motorola-elf/dejagnu'
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/build-insight-powerpc-motorola-elf/dejagnu'
cd: can't cd to etc
make: *** [install-etc] Error 2
+ cd /htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree

Funny thing, the etc directory was there when I did the cvs co.

sps

Keith Seitz wrote:

> Stephen P. Smith wrote:
>
>> If I wan't to build the insight version, I've tried to checkout using:
>>
>>  CVS_RSH=ssh ; export CVS_RSH
>>  cvs -d :ext:YOURACCOUNT@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src co insight+dejagnu
>>
>> but then doing a ./configure <switches>; make leaves me with errors.  
>> Am I checking the code out incorrectly?
>
>
> That looks correct. What errors are you seeing?
>
> Keith
>
>
>

Re: What does thios error mean

[Keith Seitz]

Stephen P. Smith wrote:

> 
> /htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/gdb-current/configure 
> --prefix=/usr/local/bleeding-edge-gdb --target=powerpc-motorola-elf 
> --host=i686-pc-cygwin --build=i686-pc-cygwin
> make
> make install
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/build-insight-powerpc-motorola-elf/dejagnu'
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/build-insight-powerpc-motorola-elf/dejagnu'
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree/build-insight-powerpc-motorola-elf/dejagnu'
> cd: can't cd to etc
> make: *** [install-etc] Error 2
> + cd /htc/GNUSource/gdb-source-tree
> 
> Funny thing, the etc directory was there when I did the cvs co.


Don't know about the specific error, but it looks like something failed 
to install into PREFIX/etc. If you're just trying to build insight/gdb, 
and you don't care about the stuff in etc (which insight and gdb don't), 
you can "work around" this problem by using the make target 
"install-gdb". FWIW, I usually only use "make all-gdb" and "make 
install-gdb" when I build, which is why I've never noticed this.

If you do care, or you just want to notify someone that something might 
be amiss, src/MAINTAINERS will list the person/mailing list to contact.

Keith