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Re: [Gaim-devel] Debuging gaim (CVS)
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From: Ajay G. <aja...@ya...> - 2003-03-27 19:08:56
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--- Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote: > Does /home/agutam/cvs_sources/gaim/bin/gaim exist? Yes, it does, I am able to start gdb and kdbg against the same binary file. > That seems like a weird > path to me... I also get the feeling that you > didn't run make install. Yes, I did, but as you guess later, I did not do it system wide. Read on... :) > Either that or it failed. Now I am going to read a > list: > > -Make sure you keep your gaim source code around, > you'll need it for debugging yes, I do, in /home/agautam/cvs_sources/gaim > -I find it useful to "export CLFAGS='-Wall -ggdb'" > Sometimes gdb gives more > useful output. I've had weird results with this on > different distributions > with different versions of stuff > > -If you're not going to install gaim system-wide, > you still need to run make > install. When you run ./autogen.sh or ./configure, > use the prefix switch to > specify an alternate path to install Gaim to. An > example is "./autogen.sh > --prefix="/home/agautam/gaimcvs"" This puts the > gaim binary in > /home/agautam/gaimcvs/bin/ I did: $ ./configure --prefix=/home/agautam/cvs_sources/gaim --enable-debug $ make $ make install All as user agautam, and all went fine. gaim and remote-gaim are in /home/agautam/cvs_sources/gaim/bin > -All the plugins were probably unloaded because you > were using 0.59 and you > ran 0.60. 0.60 loads protocol plugins > automatically, and so the protocol > plugins are no longer specified in your ~/.gaimrc > file Running gaim from /home/agautam/cvs_sources/gaim/bin works fine, it logons to my yahoo and AOL IDs. But it does screw my .gaimrc for 0.59.9, which does not bother me a lot :) More suggestions most welcome Thanks for your comments :) Ajay > > -Mark > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 04:59:07 -0800 (PST), 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 > > Linux User #252843 http://counter.li.org > > If i never try anything, i never learn anything... > > If i never take a risk, i stay where i am. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! 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