[mythtv] Debugging mythtv?

Erik Arendse erik_nospam.arendse at bigfoot.com
Thu Jan 30 08:37:31 EST 2003


At 29-1-03 20:31, Chris Lack wrote:
>On Wednesday 29 January 2003 03:51 am, Drew Bernat wrote:
> >
> > Compiling with -ggdb (or -g) and making sure strip doesn't get run should
> > do it.
> >
>
>Drew's right.  You have to go through and remove or comment any lines in the
>makefiles that call 'strip' on a binary if you want to debug.  AFAIK this
>can't be handled from the settings.pro files.

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.

Erik



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