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Re: A question before installing insight

From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
To: Zhong Zhi WU <zhong-zhi dot wu at st dot com>
Cc: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:01:39 -0700
Subject: Re: A question before installing insight
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Zhong Zhi WU wrote:

  as metioned in the FAQ, insight is a full program rather than a front-end program.
  Does that mean, it can run without pre-installed gdb.

Yes. When you build insight, you will get another version of gdb with it. The two are identical except for one bit at startup that turns on the insight gui.

The second question is that if I have installed gdb, will the newly-installed insight will affect the old gdb?

Not as long as you specify a --prefix to configure that doesn't conflict with your other gdb installation, i.e., if gdb is in /usr/bin/gdb, don't specify --prefix=/usr to configure. Otherwise, when you install insight, it's version of gdb will replace your previous one. Likewise for the Tcl applications (tclsh8.4, wish8.4).

Keith

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