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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 10:49, Yannick Koehler wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Recently I hitted a problem with valgrind which required me to re-compiled |
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> certain library already installed on my system. This triggered some |
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> thoughts as to how could gentoo support a debugging scenario. Has anyone |
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> though of something in this area? |
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> I'm thinking of something like emerge --with-debug libxml which would then |
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> do most of the same stuff as normal except that it would run ./configure |
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> with --enable-debug or appropriate options to trigger the gcc -g flag and |
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> before cleaning up the temp/work folder from /usr/portage it would install |
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> in a debug folder the source file so that gdb could find the symbol when |
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> debugging the libxml compiled using that technique. |
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> The problem I hit is that I am unaware how gdb retrieve the source file. |
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> What path he looks for first etc, in order to install the source at the |
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> correct location. Also great would be to have only the source installed |
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> and cleaning the rest (object etc...) unless someone set the maintainer |
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> autoclean to off. |
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Make a bug for this. I agree with your request. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |
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