Re: [Omniprint-developer] Newbie Question

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

Hello Andrew,

> How do I compile Omni in DEBUG mode?

There is a configure option that you can pass to the boot-strap (first time
use) command.
      ./setupOmni --enable-debug
After performing some one time checking, it passes the option to the
automatically generated configure script.

> where can I view the Debug spews it will be producing?

The debug output is sent to standard error which kind of messes with
debuggers like gdb or ddd.  Most omni test programs allow you to redirect
standard error to a file.

The next question would be how do you enable debugging information.  You
can pass in job properties that selectively enable debugging output.
      -sproperties="debugoutput=... debugoutput=..."
You can also setup an environment variable
      export OMNI_DEBUG_OPTIONS=... ...
For a list of options, look at DebugOutput.cpp for the function
setDebugOutput.

I am sorry but I havent done a process flow document yet.  One area Omni
needs help in is documentation.

Mark

Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/