Re: Insight Won't Run

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

Steve,

Is your DISPLAY variable set?  If this variable does not exist
GDB will silently fall back to text mode.

Fernando

Steve wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I tried installing insight from the file "insight-4.95.2.tar.bz2" on a
> 
> i686 machine running Redhat 7.0.  From the directory "insight-5.0"
> that was created by "tar -xf" I performed the following:
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> When gdb is executed, it does not bring up the GUI even when
> I use the -w switch.  I checked the version of GDB and it looks
> correct though it  says it is configured as "i386".  When I ran
> "configure" I  saw that the program detected an "i686" machine.
> 
> [root@Varigen1 bin]# gdb --v
> GNU gdb 5.0
> Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
> you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux".
> 
> 
> The following files are in "/usr/local/bin" directory:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      8196542 Jan  5 11:51 gdb
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1336347 Jan  5 11:49 itclsh3.0
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3008836 Jan  5 11:49 itkwish3.0
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       584253 Jan  4 14:04 mwm
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2090 Jan  4 14:04 mxmkmf
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1115166 Jan  5 11:49 tclsh
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2121 Jan  5 11:50 tixindex
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      3339418 Jan  5 11:50 tixwish4.1.8.0
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       261520 Jan  4 14:04 uil
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2668073 Jan  5 11:50 wish
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       134165 Jan  4 14:04 xmbind
> 
> Any idea what went wrong or is there any way to tell why insight is
> not working?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance you can give me on this matter..... Steve
> --
> Steve Bozman
> Varilog Research, Inc.
> 301-474-3676
> 

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