Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:59:11 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to add debug symbols in evolution? (was Fwd: [Bug 507579] crash in Evolution:) Message-ID: <4782767F.2060506@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <aeca57d90801071051x3856531eg2ec74f87df218f51@mail.gmail.com> References: <aeca57d90801062252j11e0502dsa202624333746ab8@mail.gmail.com> <4782737B.9000203@FreeBSD.org> <aeca57d90801071051x3856531eg2ec74f87df218f51@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 paul beard wrote: | On 1/7/08, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> paul beard wrote: |> | I'd like to be able to help here, but I have no idea how to add debug |> | symbols to a port. Can you advise? |> |> See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html and pay attention to |> the section about backtraces. |> | Seemed hard to find this information last night, but I figured it out | eventually. I don't think that page ever came back in a search result. | I documented it for myself and anyone else similar situated. | | http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/01/07/building-debugging-symbol-enabled-software-in-freebsd/ | | This is as close as I came | (http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/DistroSpecificInstructions#head-604f4aa9d55d55ec1a1c9265b752c811f37fd4f6) | and it doesn't really help unless you want global debugging. Maybe | someone could clarify or refine that? The FreeBSD page indicates how to build one port with debugging symbols. FYI, I submitted a patch for your problem to freebsd-gnome just a little while ago. The problem is calloc(0, sizeof(time_t)) returns NULL on FreeBSD 6.X. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgnZ+b2iPiv4Uz4cRAkcNAJ9DA5g3SOIIfoA2jz5ANTZjqK1HmgCgoWT+ RdOWGfQgAMlkOoOKDadMtj8= =9DPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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