debug error, enable-external-editor

Mo DeJong mdejong@cygnus.com
Thu Nov 16 13:26:00 GMT 2000


On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Fernando Nasser wrote:

> (I am posting this message in behalf of Chris Ruth)
> 
> Hi,
> I'm new to this world. Ex-windows programmer thrown into Linux-land.
> Please help.
> I installed source-navigator4.5.2 and insight-5.0. I am trying to use
> the
> debugger from the 'Build' window in source-navigator. When I run 'Debug'
> 
> from that window I get the following error from gdb, 'unrecognized
> option --enable-external-editor'. Do you know how to fix this? Yes, I
> read the previous postings on this but I'm still confused as to what i
> need to download to get it working.
> thanks,

You don't have insight on your PATH. SN is finding and execing
the regular gdb and that is causing the error. Make sure
insight appears on the PATH before /usr/bin/gdb.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc


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