Re: Insight ?

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

Colin,

Make sure that your "DISPLAY" environment is set.  To see if it is, do:

$ echo $DISPLAY

This should be something like

machineName:0.0

where machineName is ... the name of your machine.  If it isn't, you can 
set it by:

setenv DISPLAY machineName:0.0

Jim

On Sunday, February 4, 2001, at 12:58 PM, insight-digest-
help@sources.redhat.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tried a few visual front ends for GDB, the last being CodeMedic but
> found it so bug ridden it was a toil.
>
> Being a Windows programmer for years I'm getting very interested in 
> Linux
> and have developed one project under FreeBSD.
>
> I need a good debugger that allows me to set watches, examine variables 
> etc
> and was pleased to find Insight by trawling the Net.
>
> Being fairly new to Linux (I've been using it on and off for about a 
> year)
> I'm not convinced that I've installed it correctly.
>
> I downloaded 19990727.bz2, unzipped it to the tar file, un-tarred it and
> rebuilt everything.
>
> I then ran make install and it seemd to complete OK.
>
> The installation seemed to create a load of files, including GDB itself 
> and
> left it in the insight-19990727 directory under my home directory.
>
> Running either this gdb or the one in /usr/bin doesn't invoke the GUI
> interface for Insight I was expecting.
> It just gives plain old gdb.
>
> Is their a command line switch for invoking the GUI ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin Johnson

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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
Developer Tools - gdb
Apple Computer