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Re: segfaults and other murders



On Mon, 1 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:

> I used my best friend apt-get, who grabbed the source. I then enter the
> source tree modified a couple lines in 'configure' (changed every
> reference of "-g" to "-g3" (used grep to verify I didn't miss any)). I
> watched it compile (as best I could) and it DID use the "-g3". Then I
> purged the stock gnomeicu (dpkg --purge gnomeicu) and installed mine
> (dpkg -i gnomeicu_0.90b-1_alpha.deb). I tried it a second time and it
> still claims there is no debugging. I dunno why? 

Comment out any and all 'strip' commands that you encounter (including in
debian/rules...look out for dh_strip).  'strip' removes debugging symbols
from the binaries and is expected to be used during packaging (and often
it's used in the 'install' step of makefiles).

C


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