Re: [Gaim-devel] Debuging gaim (CVS)

[Luke S. <lsc...@ta...>]

Most people i know use gdb directly. it does take some time to learn,
and few people learn all of it, most just learn what they need to,
but its worth the investment if you plan on coding much.

luke

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Ajay Gautam wrote:

> What is everyone using for debugging ?
>
> I tried using kdevelop, but it can't seem to debug the
> gaim binary. I get an error dialog stating:
> "gdb message:
> This GDB was configured as
> "i686-pc-linux-gnu"..."/home/agautam/cvs_sources/gaim/bin/gaim":
> No such file or directory."
>
> Dialog screen dump:
> http://ajaygautam.homelinux.net/kdev-gaim.jpg
> Execute from KDevelop works fine !
>
> I tried using the KDE debugger (Kdbg), I am able to
> run gaim, but can't seem to set a break point.
>
> I would prefer to use a GUI (IDE) based debugger. gdb
> seems like, it would need some time to learn.
>
> As you can see, this is my first development project
> on Linux. Any help / info will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> --- Luke Schierer <lsc...@ta...> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:00:17PM -0800, Ajay
> > Gautam wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I got the CVS version of gaim into
> > > /home/agautam/cvs_sources/gaim
> > >
> > > cd /home/agautam/cvs_sources/
> > > cvs -d:blah:blah:blah co gaim
> > > cd gaim
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > cd src
> > > gdb ./gaim
> > >
> > > The gaim that comes up looks like:
> > > http://ajaygautam.homelinux.net/gaim.jpg
> >
> > this isn't reachable, the connection is refused.
> >
> > >
> > > It also screwed up my gaim config in my home
> > directory
> > > and unloaded all the gaim plugins.
> >
> > any plugins will have to be updated to conform to
> > the newwer plugin api.
> >
> > >
> > > I also tried to run thru kdevelop, but had the
> > same
> > > results.
> > >
> > > I am trying to debug why gaim is not able to get
> > all
> > > off-line yahoo messages.
> > >
> >
> > unlike all other yahoo messages, offline messages
> > are delivered to you in a
> > single packet (others come in one packet per
> > message). we currently only
> > pull the last message out of that packet. a patch
> > would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> >
> > > Any pointers, tips, help to get gaim debugging
> > will be
> > > really helpful...
> >
> >
> > good luck.
> > luke
> >
> > --
> > -This email is made of 100% recycled electrons.
>
>
> =====
> Ajay Gautam
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> If i never try anything, i never learn anything...
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