Bug 5176 - iowin command broken in redhat 6
Summary: iowin command broken in redhat 6
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: xxgdb
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-09-17 03:15 UTC by j.cooper
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-20 06:58:23 UTC

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Description j.cooper 1999-09-17 03:15:25 UTC 
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 1999-09-21 02:08:59 UTC 
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 06:58:59 UTC 
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 19:41:45 UTC 
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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