On Thursday 26 February 2009 17:36:12 lehe wrote: > I installed bashdb through Synaptic Package Manager of my Ubuntu 8.10 and > it was installed into /usr/share/bashdb/, /usr/bin/, /usr/lib/ etc. Not > sure these could be found by bash. > > How to know if DEBUGGER_START_FILE is defined in pathnames.h and define it > this way if not? > > Also I ried one suggestion found with Google: > "To see if your standard bash executable has bashdb support, execute the > command shown below; if you are not taken to a bashdb prompt then you'll > have to install bashdb yourself. $ bash --debugger -c "set|grep -i dbg" " > I am not taken to bashdb prompt and instead get > "BASH_EXECUTION_STRING='set|grep -i dbg'". So I guess my bashdb is not set > up properly?
older versions of bash (<4.0) would install the bashdb files according to the configure script but still hardcode the path to bashdb in /usr/local/.... this is fixed with bash-4.0 though. not sure how many distros out there noticed ... Chet's suggestions would tell you real quick if Debian/Ubuntu did ... -mike
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