[mythtv] Debugging mythtv?

[Drew Bernat]

Does the installation process run 'strip' at any point? That explicitly
goes through and removes debugging symbols.

<rant>
Stripped binaries are _really really really_ annoying when trying to write
a debugger. So is -fomit-frame-pointer, which makes it nearly impossible
to get a good trace
</rant>

Compiling with -ggdb (or -g) and making sure strip doesn't get run should
do it.

Drew

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Ainsley McCall wrote:

> Hi, I noticed today that a few folks were talking about using DDD to debug
> mythtv 0.7.
> I tried this last week with mixed results.  GDB always complains that it
> cannot find any debugging symbols.  I tried to explicitly force them into
> the compile by writing a perl script to add the -ggdb flag to every gcc and
> g++ in the tree makefiles.  It appears as though this is working, but still
> no symbols.  I presume that there was some other optimization flag that was
> taking precedence over my hacked-in flag to add debugging symbols, or they
> were getting linked out later.  There's gotta be a better way to do this.
>
> Perhaps I'm debugging the wrong executable.  Should my command line be
> something other than `gdb mythtv` or `ddd mythfrontend`?
>
> Anyone have a quick tip on getting this to go?
>
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Drew Bernat                                                __ ____
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