Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:13:44 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome 2.5 debugging symbols Message-ID: <1073762024.44197.79.camel@compass> In-Reply-To: <1073711194.42838.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1073708584.44197.73.camel@compass> <1073711194.42838.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 00:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 23:23, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm looking to start running gnome 2.5 on a spare machine of
> > mine. I'm not a programmer but I understand the importance of debugging
> > symbols when trying to determine the cause of a crash. I'd like to
> > compile the gnome components with debugging symbols in case they are
> > needed for whatever I run into. I did some googling and saw that "-g"
> > in /etc/make.conf file will cause debugging symbols to be added. I also
> > read that debugging symbols are automatically stripped when a program is
> > installed from ports. How do I keep debugging symbols in the gnome
> > components then? I see in bsd.port.mk it says that by setting ${STRIP}
> > to an empty string will cause debugging symbols to not be stripped. Do
> > I just need to do this?:
> >
> > STRIP = ""
>
> Yes. All of this is mentioned in the Development Branch FAQ at
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome. That is a must-read if you plan on
> running GNOME 2.5.
>
> Joe
>
D'oh! Forgot about the FAQ last night. Thanks a bunch.
Tom
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1073762024.44197.79.camel>