Re: [eclipse-clp-users] problem with remote_connect_accept in debugdemo.ecl

Yes, that was the problem.  The tutorial does say to change 
the directory, and I thought I had done that ...

Thanks.

On 08/ 2/11 08:44 PM, Kish Shen wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 21:48, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>
>> I am trying to run the debugdemo.ecl program from Ch. 5 of
>> the tutorial through TkEclipse. I press "creep" repeatedly
>> in the Tracer, and things go well, until the code hits
>> remote_connect_accept. This line fails (red in the call
>> stack).
>>
>
> I was only able to reproduce your problem if you compile
> debugdemo without changing your working directory to the
> directory with debugdemo.ecl (and the other programs listed
> in the chapter).
> For example, if you used 'File->Change to example directory'
> to change to the example directory, and then compiled
> debugdemo.ecl without using cd/1 or ThECLiPSe's
> 'File->Change directory...' option to change into the
> tutorial directory, i.e. you either used File->Compile...
> and then changed the directory in the file selection widget,
> or equivalently,
> ["tutorial/debugdemo"] in the query entry. This will compile
> the file *without* changing your working directory.
>
> If you did this, running colour will show the problems you
> described. This is because debugdemo assumes it can find the
> other files in the current directory, and if they are not,
> then the execution fails.
>
> Is this your problem? The tutorial chapter does say you
> should change your working directory to the directory where
> the debugdemo.ecl files are, but the debugdemo.ecl program
> does not actually check that this is the case. I guess I
> should change the program to be more robust to catch such
> problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kish
>