running a program

[Boswell, TJ]

We're starting a new project here at my work, and I'm coding and compiling
on Linux (Redhat 7.2) using the GNU compiler.  I have a problem with my
program, so I thought I would see if there were available debuggers that I
could use.  I found gdb, so I compiled my program with the -g option:

g++ -g ClServer.cpp -o ClServer

Then, I started the debugger:

gdb ClServer

I got the following:

GNU gdb 2001-09-07-cvs (MI_OUT)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.  Type "Show copying" to see the conditions.  This version of GDB
is supported for customers of Red Hat, Inc..  Type "show warranty" for
details.  This GDB was configured as "--host=i386-pc-linux-gnu
--target=i686-pc-linux-gnu" ...
(gdb)

from here, I specified a breakpoint:

(gdb) break ClientHandler::handle_close()

I got the following:

Breakpoint 1 at 0x80ad00: FILE ../clserver/ClientHandler.cpp, LINE 188.
(gdb)

>From here I ran the program:

(gdb) run

I got the following:
Starting Program: /home/tboswell/HPA/src/clserver/ClServer
Don't know how to run.  Try "help target".

I typed help target, but I'm not trying to debug anything on a remote
machine.  Is there something else I need to do to compile my program or some
configuration setting I'm not doing?  Thanks for any help you can give me.
If there is anymore information I need to provide, please let me know.

Regards,
Tajuana (TJ)


TJ Boswell
Software Engineer
VertexRSI, Controls Division
1219 Digital Drive, STE 101
Richardson, Texas  75081