Re: segfaults and other murders


Subject: Re: segfaults and other murders
From: Christopher C. Chimelis (chris@debian.org)
Date: Mon May 01 2000 - 19:02:38 PDT


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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