Re: Debugging Octave (as in gdb not a script)

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Alec Teal <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 2:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Debugging Octave (as in gdb not a script)
> 
> On 03/02/13 00:06, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Alec Teal <address@hidden>
>>>  To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
>>>  Cc: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>; 
> "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>>>  Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:47 AM
>>>  Subject: Re: Debugging Octave (as in gdb not a script)
>>> 
>>>  On 02/02/13 23:18, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>    From: Alec Teal <address@hidden>
>>>>>    To: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
>>>>>    Cc: address@hidden
>>>>>    Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:06 AM
>>>>>    Subject: Re: Debugging Octave (as in gdb not a script)
>>>>> 
>>>>    [snip]
>>>>>    You can't use gdb on shell scripts.
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Alec
>>>>> 
>>>>>    _______________________________________________
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>>>>> 
>>>>    But one can invoke 'gdb' from the innermost shell script.
>>>> 
>>>>    Regards,
>>>>       Sergei.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>   From what I can tell the two shell scripts do nothing useful(?! why
>>>  have them?) and within the hidden folder src/.libs there exists a 
> binary
>>>  called lt-octave
>>> 
>>>  To any future people who have this problem - point the IDE to it, I do
>>>  not know why it is hidden or so far from the root-directory, if I find
>>>  out I will follow up but it doesn't seem to matter......
>>> 
>>>  Alec
>>> 
>>  Well, in my case:
>> 
>>  "
>>  file /home/sergei/AFSWD/install/octave-3.6.2/bin/octave-3.6.2
>>  /home/sergei/AFSWD/install/octave-3.6.2/bin/octave-3.6.2: ELF 32-bit LSB 
> executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically 
> linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>>  "
>> 
>>  - this is self-built Octave.
>> 
>>  So I am sure where the shell script comes form.
>> 
>>  Regards,
>>     Sergei.
>> 
>> 
> 
[snip]
> 
> No folder called bin, but I haven't installed octave, just compiled it.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Alec
> 

And why not install Octave ?

In my top level Makefile I have:

   1549 prefix = /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/octave-3.6.2

, so you can change 'prefix' to whatever location even 'configure'.

Regards,
  Sergei.