Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:01:44 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Greg Lewis" <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java (jdk1.5) woes with firefox (1.0.6) and opera (8.5) Message-ID: <op.sxxgc61f9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20050930175230.GB10169@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20050928190349.GA72194@malcolm.berkeley.edu> <20050928194514.GA20631@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20050930171613.GC26743@malcolm.berkeley.edu> <20050930175230.GB10169@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:52:30 -0500, Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:16:13AM -0700, Mike Hunter wrote: >> On Sep 28, "Greg Lewis" wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:03:49PM -0700, Mike Hunter wrote: <snip> >> > > Last but not least, a beginner question: How do you run firefox in >> gdb? >> > > I found firefox-bin, but it won't launch without the environment >> grooming >> > > that its scriptup scripts perform, and I can't run gdb on the >> startup >> > > script :( >> > >> > Determine the environment variables you need to set from the start up >> > script. Set them. Run gdb on firefox-bin. >> >> I was afraid of that :( I saw the other suggestion about attaching gdb >> after launch, but in the past that's always crashed the application for >> me...maybe I'll give it another try when. > > Its not as hard as it sounds, you can probably get the information by > simply inserting a printenv in the appropriate place in the script. You need to recompile Firefox with 'WITH_DEBUG=yes', after that run 'firefox --debug' or just 'firefox -debug', I don't remember but that should get you in gdb by automatic when Firefox crashes. BTW: Be sure to have those in your make.conf like this. ========================= CFLAGS= -O -g -pipe STRIP= ========================= Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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