Re: gtk frontend debug
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:40:33PM +0000, Davide Viti wrote:
> Hi,
> a few weeks ago I set up a debug environment for debugging the gtk code
> for cdebconf in a really short time: too bad I've accidentally deleted my
> ..gdbinit and I cannot get it to work any longer.
>
> Here's the setup:
> HOST:
> I have a checkout of trunk/packages/cdebconf containing
> the sources and the unstripped binaries in my home (so debconf.c
> is in "~/cdebconf/src" and "gtk.so" is in
> "~/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/gtk")
>
> TARGET
> I use qemu launched with "-s", awaiting for gdb on port 1234; inside qemu
> I run a custom "mini.iso" with the various udebs for cdebconf aligned with
> those on the host (even if they could be stripped on the targed, I pulled
> in exaclty the same binaries I have on the host). As you know gtk.so is
> located inside /usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/, debconf is instead inside
> /usr/bin
>
> So, I start qemu, I then "gdb debconf" (inside my local
> ~/cdebconf/src). I can see debconf.c sources
> and set a breakpoint for example at line 140; I then "continue"
> and play with the installer until I hit the breakpoint: everything
> is fine up to here.
> I cannot set breakpoints inside gtk.c anymore.
> I tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH as to point to
> ~/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/gtk
> and to set the solib-search-path variable but NOTHING!
> I swear it did work and I'm sure I'm missing something stupid, but there's
> nothing like tryin to remember how you did something.
>
> save me
>
> thanx
> Davide
Only retitled the Subject line: s/cdebconf debug/gtk frontend debug/
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