Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:03:52 -0500 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to build program with debug symbols Message-ID: <20070222160325.8AE0.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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FreeBSD-6.2 I need to know how to build a program with debugging symbols. The problem I am having is that claws-mail-2.7.2 continually crashes but does not display any debug symbols. I talked with the claws-mail people, and they advised me to build a version with debug symbols since the output I supplied them was useless without it. Their suggestion was that I build from a tarball and use the proper ‘config’ flags to get debug symbols included in the program. The problem is that I would rather not mess with that scenario, but rather use the port version instead. The port version does have an option to build a debug version, but apparently, the symbols are stripped out when the program is installed. The port maintainer suggested that I use this is the Makefile: "STRIP= #empty" However, he is not even sure if it will work. I just want to find out what the best way to go about this is so that I can get this problem resolved. Thanks! -- Gerard Here is today's useless fact: If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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