[mythtv] Debugging threaded code

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Sun Dec 12 22:27:56 UTC 2004


In message <41BCBFAB.3090208 at miami.edu>
          Angel Li <angel at miami.edu> wrote:

> I patched the current CVS version with DTK's hdtv recorder patch 38 and
> when I tune one particular channel I immediately get an abort. I
> generated the backtraces from gdb but I was told that I need to install
> a debug version of pthreads. I'm running Fedora Core 3 and tried
> building glibc from the source RPM but have had no luck getting a debug
> version compiled. I tried forcing the "-g" flag in the configure step
> but configure errors out telling me that "glibc needs to be optimized".

Get the debuginfo RPM for the FC3 glibc that you are running and
install that. You should then get proper backtraces in gdb.

Tom

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