Re: tcldebug?

[K Sun <ksun@essex.ac.uk>]

Hello,
    Thanks, Thanks and Thanks..
Now, it is OK. I think the previous problem is I did not "make 
distclean" because I do not know well what files I should clean when I 
re-configure ns.
     
       Best Wishes,
              Sun Kai

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:13:52 +0100 (BST) Lloyd Wood 
<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, K Sun wrote:
> 
> >     I tried it. However, it seems I have not successfully installed my 
> > tcldebug well. I do not know how to test it. What I did is just adding 
> > a line "debug 1" in a tcl file under "./tcl/lib" of ns. I do not want 
> > to trace a example; I try to debug ns-rsvp.tcl of RSVP/ns.
> >     I installed ns-allinone-2.1b5 in my RedHat. It should not be 
> > prebuilt binary. I configue ns with "./configure --enable-debug 
> > --with-tcldebug=$HOME/ns-allinone-2.1b5/tcl-debug-1.9" and "make".
> >     However, when I try an example, I still meet the error informaiton:
> > "...
> > 
> > warning: Script debugging disabled.  Reconfigure with --with-tcldebug, and recompile.
> > 
> > .."
> > 
> >    I downloaded tcl-debug-1.9 respectively, then "configure" and 
> > "make" it.
> >     
> >    Could you please give me further help?
> 
> Try doing
> 
> make distclean
> 
> first, as discussed previously in the archives.  Check if you have a
> libtcldbg.a in the tcl-debug directory (i.e. tcl-debug was built
> correctly), and not elsewhere on your path.
> 
> Configure detects the tcl-debug package using Dbg.h, so if you have
> some other Dbg.h elsewhere, it may get confused - but since you're
> specifying location that shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> See similar May 1999 discussion.
> 
> L.
> 
> 
> >    Many thanks,
> >            Sun Kai
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:11:47 +0100 (BST) Lloyd Wood 
> > <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, K Sun wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks for your message.
> > > > However, how to reconfiguer ns? (how to make correciton on the lines I 
> > > > lists?)
> > > 
> > > You do not correct the lines.
> > > 
> > > You repeat the install process that you carried out to build ns in the
> > > first place, when you did configure and make. For me that would be
> > > 
> > > configure --disable-static --with-tcl=$HOME/ns/tcl8.0 \
> > > --with-tcl-ver=8.0 --with- otcl=$HOME/ns/otcl \
> > > --with-tclcl=$HOME/ns/tclcl --with-perl=/usr/local/bin --with \
> > > -tk=$HOME/ns/tk8.0 --with-tk-ver=8.0 --with-dmalloc=$HOME/ns/dmalloc \
> > > --enable-debug --with-tcldebug=$HOME/ns/tcl-debug
> > > make
> > > 
> > > alter to suit.
> > > 
> > > (I presume you're not using a prebuilt binary, and that a prebuilt
> > >  binary would have tcldebug built in as a matter of course.)
> > > 
> > > configure -help 
> > > tells you as much.
> > > 
> > > L.
> > > 
> > > > The directory of "tcldebugger" is in a parallel directory to "ns-2.1b5" 
> > > > (ns directory).
> > > > 
> > > > I am looking forward to more instruction.
> > > > 
> > > >    Thanks again,
> > > >   
> > > >    Sun Kai
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:58:45 +0100 (BST) Lloyd Wood 
> > > > <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, K Sun wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > >     I would like to use tcldebug. I have downloaded, uncompressed, 
> > > > > > "configure" and "make" it with in a parallel directory to ns-2.
> > > > > > However, I do not know how to run it.
> > > > > >      It seems I should added "debug 1" in an appropriate place of a tcl 
> > > > > > file first. However, everytime, when I run ns, it always replies that I 
> > > > > > should define -with-tcldebug and recomplie ns.
> > > > > 
> > > > > And that's exactly what you should do. Reconfigure ns and recompile so
> > > > > that ns can include the tcl-debug library in itself.
> > > > > 
> > > > > L.
> > > > > 
> > > > > >      I have checked the "configure" file of ns. The related lines are:
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > ac_help="$ac_help
> > > > > > --with-tcldebug=path specify a pathname for the tcl debugger (path=no disables the debugger)"
> > > > > > ..
> > > > > >      I do not know whether I should make correction on it. If I should, 
> > > > > > how should I correct it?
> > > 
> > > <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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