build insight on RH7.1

[Mike Sowka]

Hello,
I was just wandering if someone could tell me how to go about getting 
insight up and running. I understand RedHat offers insight as GNUPro... 
being a student, I figured I'll just get them 'gratis' by putting in a 
bit of effort and building them myself. Now I've done this before on the 
solaris machines at work before... but now when I sit down to do it on 
the school computer... I'm left scratching my head... :

- I can only build stuff into my ~/ (./configure --prefix=/home/msowka)
- gdb 5.0 is already installed on the systems as rpm
- I've tried building insight at home (--prefix=/usr, and gdb5.0 as rpms 
as well) and it wouldn't work

Question(s):
-how do I build insight into my ~/?
-do I need to rebuild gdb5.0 even though it's already there in the form 
of an rpm?
-what's the scoop on the development snapshots: why do both gdb & 
insight include dejagnu... and how do I build THAT?

Thank  you for any suggestions for the newbie...
Mike

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