Re: insight and existing gdb, tcl/tk

[Syd Polk <spolk at redhat dot com>]

Scott Bean wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After downloading both tarballs (gdb-5.0 and insight -5.0) from
> 'ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gdb/releases/', I realized that I only
> needed to download the insight tarball.  Unfortunately the README on
> that ftp site does not mention that at all!
> 
> Now my question is how do I make/install the insight-only part of the
> insight tarball?  My main concern is that I already have tcl/tk 8.3
> installed and do not want it to get stepped on by the tcl/tk 8.1(?) that
> is part of the insight tarball.  Documentation was very light in this
> tarball, so I am really unsure about the build process.  Is it smart
> enough not to rebuild existing items via the configure command or the
> makefiles?
> 
> Appreciate your help on this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott

The tcl version that gets built with insight should not conflict with
your Tcl version. Insight requires a custom version of tcl/tk at this
time, so it does not work with Tcl/Tk 8.3.