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Subject: -38- Where's 'edge' in IRIX 5.x? What can I use instead?
Date: 03 Sep 1995 00:00:01 EST
SGI does not include edge with IRIX 5.x. When asked for substitutes,
SGI will direct you to their CASEVision debugger, which costs extra.
An oft-mentioned free graphical debugger is 'xdbx'; you can find the
original source in ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/, a patch to make it work
on IRIX 4.0.x in
ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/debug/xdbx.sgi.patch and patched
versions for IRIX 4.0.x and 5.x in
ftp://swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov/programs/X/. An 'inst'-installable
binary for IRIX 5.x only is in ftp.sgi.com:~ftp/sgi/xdbx/.
If you have 'gdb', you can try 'tgdb' and 'tgdb_wish', which may be
FTPed from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/debuggers/ and
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/ respectively.
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