Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:36:17 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <256922.36399.qm@web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200810311725.21619.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Right - sorry, my bad on that one. But do substitute -ggdb for your -g, as that'll give us GDB-specific debugging symbols.
- mdh
--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > Build it for debugging. cd to the directory
> /usr/src/bin/csh, and run the
> > following commands: `CFLAGS='-ggdb' make`,
> then run `make install`.
>
>
> No, we don't do that. We run:
> make DEBUG_FLAGS=-g clean all install
>
> because:
> a) setting CFLAGS omits CFLAGS from the bsd build system
> and that's not
> advised
> b) setting DEBUG_FLAGS disables strip on install (strip
> strips the debug
> symbols)
>
> --
> Mel
>
> Problem with today's modular software: they start with
> the modules
> and never get to the software part.
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