Bug 5176 – iowin command broken in redhat 6

Bug 5176 - iowin command broken in redhat 6

Summary:	iowin command broken in redhat 6

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	xxgdb (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jakub Jelinek
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Reported:	1999-09-16 23:15 EDT by j.cooper
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-10-20 02:58:23 EDT
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Description j.cooper 1999-09-16 23:15:25 EDT

The xxgdb package comes with xxgdbiowin not compiled.  I
installed the source with
	rpm -ih xxgdb-1.12-10.src.rpm
and then
	rpm -bc xxgdb.spec
I noticed that the Imakefile already has
	DEFGDB =  -DGDB -DCREATE_IO_WINDOW -g
so I said:
	make xxgdbiowin
I made sure all ather copies of xxgdbiowin were removed and
in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xxgdb-1.12 said
	./xxgdb xxgdb
If I then say to xxgdb
	iowin
(with . in my path).  A window is popped up, but xxgdb then
hangs.

iowin is important for debugging ncurses programs.  It was
working with redhat 5.1.

Comment 1 j.cooper 1999-09-20 22:08:59 EDT

The experiment I described did actually show a correctly working IO
window, but after I installed the programmes I could not get it to
work again.  I will reinstall redhat 6 and retry.

Comment 2 j.cooper 1999-10-20 02:58:59 EDT

workaround:  xxgdbiowin will sometimes leave a special file in /tmp:
srwxrwxr-x   1 jc       jc              0 Oct 20 14:35 iowindowtty
Note the first char of that long listing.  Removing the file seems to
let me run iowin again.

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2001-01-08 14:41:45 EST

The work around seems to be adequate, as debugging ncurses with xxgdb hardly
seems
to have a critically important impact. Please reopen if you disagree.

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