From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 11:11:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB8B16A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from straycat.dhs.org (h0050da134090.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.91.148.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77C7843D68 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: (qmail 7691 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2004 19:11:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.129?) (192.168.1.129) by 192.168.1.128 with SMTP; 10 Jan 2004 19:11:54 -0000 From: Tom McLaughlin To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1073711194.42838.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1073708584.44197.73.camel@compass> <1073711194.42838.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1073762024.44197.79.camel@compass> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:13:44 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome 2.5 debugging symbols X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:11:11 -0000 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