From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 19:04:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D5716A46C for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:04:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29F813C442 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so2552863wxd.7 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:04:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=4gk21Lv7cYEZuqeU3839e2DdvCKmysGEuppR9o5hopM=; b=RrshGY5HpEgiW89zG4mtfufUKJ4MTgQaaL6qQvfTx68hCxMVzTpWV1Kxhwe+N5hxgdjXBjfMeuEMVpqYpdVdCmyeys0JeQRdE/QRHyd5sC1QKaaBWcGJs93ozfcfJxDW2sULR8KHpUHxmFQfk9i4JWatSREsGbZdHnDT9txBsKQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HFO12eYvdFIN7p0neKiuT+EhpJKh0BBdTIg/GXKl4keY09ZZo7nAV8lX/PwMvP0uteqc9NUGseJZi6rq+WmDkhLPCNXBaVv+zq4X/TvcSQJfXPgY6dX3lCi+Uleu+ao1RkIB4d5mP1lut15cnfvhzAgYZdscKg5MPmFKMv4wA8o= Received: by 10.142.154.20 with SMTP id b20mr1340291wfe.172.1199732676991; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.13.2 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:04:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:04:36 -0800 From: "paul beard" To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4782737B.9000203@FreeBSD.org> <4782767F.2060506@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to add debug symbols in evolution? (was Fwd: [Bug 507579] crash in Evolution:) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:04:39 -0000 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 wrote: > On 1/7/08, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > paul beard wrote: > > | On 1/7/08, Joe Marcus Clarke 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/ > > -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/