idb and Ubuntu 8.04

[geha]

Hello,

I'm using intel fortran 11 (Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64). Starting the debugger idbc, everything is working fine.

However, the menu of the idb-GUI consists basically of "Jfoo". What is the problem here?

A further question: With fortran 11, is there still any support for emacs, i.e. a idb.el adapted to the new debugger?

Best Regards,

Georg

[Rob_Mueller-Albrecht]

Dear Georg,

as you observerd ./idbc calls the command line version of IDB, whereas ./idb calls the Eclipse RCP based full GUI version. The GUI not coming up points most likely to a Java JRE issue. You will need to have Java JRE 5.0 (aka 1.5) or newer installed. Version 6.0 should be available on your Ubuntu 8.04 system via apt-get or Synaptic. You also will want to make sure that the path to the Java JRE binary is being exported in your system:

export PATH=:$PATH

Please double check your JRE installation and provide me with the exact JRE package you have installed if the problem persists.

In general the Emacs support is still fully available, although there is no active GUIsupport for it and it is thus only available through the IDB command line

The debuggerGDB mode command

set editing {on|off} enables Emas like control characters in IDB.

You can still use the edit [filename] command along with the EDITOR environment cariable to invoke Emacs from IDB.

The online help for IDB may not open succesfully on Ubuntu 8.04, thus you will have to manually navigate to /opt/intel/Compiler/11.0/069/idb/gui/common/com.intel.debugger.help_1.0.0 to access it.

If you want to launch the debugger from within Emacs you should use ./idbc as the binary to call.

Thanks, Rob

[Rob_Mueller-Albrecht]

P.S. I have seen a few reports from users with older distributions that have the Java JRE 5.0 (1.5) installed that they have problems with the debugger GUI. You may want to try upgrading to the Java JRE 6.0 (1.6) if my suggestions above don't address your problem.

[geha]

Quoting - Robert MuellerAlbrecht (Intel)

P.S. I have seen a few reports from users with older distributions that have the Java JRE 5.0 (1.5) installed that they have problems with the debugger GUI. You may want to try upgrading to the Java JRE 6.0 (1.6) if my suggestions above don't address your problem.

Hello Rob,

thank you for your detailed reply. However, the Java JRE 6.0 was installed. So it couldn't be the problem. But I found the reason of these "Jfoo" by myself. The problem comes from the language setting. Since I have a German system, the idb-GUI tries to find the menu entries in German and for this task there could be a bug. When I set

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

the menu is displayed properly (in English). So I have modified the executable script "idb" in order to set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and with that my problem is solved.

Regards,

Georg

[ivanterrible]

Quoting - Robert MuellerAlbrecht (Intel)

You also will want to make sure that the path to the Java JRE binary is being exported in your system:

export PATH=:$PATH

Hi, can you explain more about this step? Thanks, I really appreciate your contribution

[andreas-manschke]

I had the same Problem with jfoo menues (on Scientific Linux 5) and for me it was
(for the csh)
setenv LC_CTYPE en_US
instead of LANG.