[mythtv] Debugging mythtv?

Drew Bernat abernat at zathras.net
Thu Jan 30 02:31:57 EST 2003


On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Erik Arendse wrote:

> I just use settings.pro, make and gdb/ddd. Never have debugged installed
> executables, no idea if they are stripped, but why should you debug them?
> If you want to access the source from a debugger it's far more convenient
> to debug from the sourcetree anyway.

"Just use fprintf!"

Sorry, couldn't resist... my rant against strip actually comes from my
background as a research student. We're working on a performance tool, and
we've discovered that many versions of strip remove things like function
names. This makes giving the user coherent output difficult.

The reason for debugging installed binaries is that client libraries must
be installed to be seen by the system. And often it's easier to just make
install then to copy the libraries over by hand.

Drew

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