Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:04:36 -0800 From: "paul beard" <paulbeard@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to add debug symbols in evolution? (was Fwd: [Bug 507579] crash in Evolution:) Message-ID: <aeca57d90801071104va5185e7n1c21d647062bda9b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <aeca57d90801071101i2d91137br3ba4191ab4d2f6e6@mail.gmail.com> References: <aeca57d90801062252j11e0502dsa202624333746ab8@mail.gmail.com> <4782737B.9000203@FreeBSD.org> <aeca57d90801071051x3856531eg2ec74f87df218f51@mail.gmail.com> <4782767F.2060506@FreeBSD.org> <aeca57d90801071101i2d91137br3ba4191ab4d2f6e6@mail.gmail.com>
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It wasn't the information that was the problem, it was finding it. The page you sent doesn't turn up in a search for "gnome debug symbols" or even "gnome debug symbols freebsd." That was why I suggest an update to the page at the GNOME site (which does show in a search result) might be worthwhile. On 1/7/08, paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/7/08, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > > -----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----- > > > > > -- > Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ > <paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@gmail.com> > -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard@gmail.com/paulbeard@gmail.com>
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