Re: kdebug defaults/build options

[Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>]

On August 13, 2011 04:01:54 PM Xavier Brochard wrote:
> Bruce Sass wrote:
> > On August 10, 2011 02:13:49 PM Xavier Brochard wrote:
> >> Bruce Sass wrote:
> >> >> 2. At times I've been annoyed by the number of spam messages
> >> >> kwrite/kate leave on the console when run that way. Looking into it,
> >> >> these messages are kDebug outputs. The kde techbase suggests [1] this
> >> >> output is intended to be disabled in releases. Would you have any
> >> >> objections to doing this in the future, with kwrite at least? There's
> >> >> not many programs I've had problems with, but I do wince when running
> >> >> kwrite from a console every so often.
> 
> >> >> [1]:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/FAQs/Debugging_FAQ#Is_there_a_preferred
> 
> >> >> _way_to_print_debug_output_on_stderr.3F
> >> > 
> >> > My work-around to this problem is to tack "&>/dev/null &" onto the end
> >> > of all cmdline issued KDE commands...
> >> 
> >> An easier approach is to simply run kdebugdialog then select/deselect
> >> the apps that you want to not send debug output
> > 
> > If I ever run Stable's KDE I probably will--assuming Debian hasn't
> > already--
> 
> No, but I don't know what is the good choice:
> On one Debian squeeze install, I've got a .xsession-errors which grows very
> fast (a few hours) to 320 Go. It was on a multi users system and was very
> problematic. It was purely a kde problem (with Nepomuk/Akonadi), which I
> solved. But, if debug output were disable, it might be possible that I
> would never know about it.

[sorry for the late response]

If the only symptom was the huge log file then it could be argued that: had 
debug messages been disabled, there wouldn't have been a problem... :D

I'm assuming that this [disabling debug messages] would be a change in the 
default kdebugdialog settings, and as such would be reversible by the 
admin/user. So, it would still be possible to discover the problem you ran 
into although there may be a bit of a delay until kdebugdialog is discovered 
and adjusted.

- Bruce