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From: Mark Guertin <gerk@g.o>
To: Joe McMahon <mcmahon@×××××××××××.edu>, gentooppc-dev@g.o
Cc: gentooppc-user@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentooppc-user] gdb with Cygnus GUI LIbrary error (and workaround)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:21:32
Message-Id: 200208220355.54223.gerk@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentooppc-user] gdb with Cygnus GUI LIbrary error (and workaround) by Joe McMahon
1 On Wednesday 21 August 2002 20:16, Joe McMahon wrote:
2 > I installed gdb today and found I couldn't get the darn thiing to run. It
3 > would always just die with a message saying that it couldn't find the
4 > Cygnus GUI libraries.
5 >
6 > After a batch of Googling, I figured out that it wasn't properly set up
7 > to find all its Tcl/Tk stuff by default. Add this to your .bashrc
8 > and gdb will at least run:
9 >
10 > GDBTK_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/gdbtcl
11 > export GDBTK_LIBRARY
12 > TCL_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/tcl8.0
13 > export TCL_LIBRARY
14 > TK_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/tk8.0
15 > export TK_LIBRARY
16 > TIX_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/tix4.1
17 > export TIX_LIBRARY
18 > ITCL_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/itcl3.0
19 > export ITCL_LIBRARY
20 > ITK_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/itk3.0
21 > export ITK_LIBRARY
22 > CYGNUS_GUI_LIBRARY=/opt/insight/share/cygnus/gui
23 > export CYGNUS_GUI_LIBRARY
24 >
25 > This is stuff gdb is supposed to be able to find itself, but it doesn't
26 > seem to be able to.
27 >
28 > --- Joe M.
29
30 Hey Joe
31
32 I would say I think you should file this as a bug if it doesn't detect stuff,
33 that's not too great :( good workaround tho ;)
34
35 Mark