gnome 2.5 debugging symbols

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 23:23, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> Hi all, I'm looking to start running gnome 2.5 on a spare machine of
> mine.  I'm not a programmer but I understand the importance of debugging
> symbols when trying to determine the cause of a crash.  I'd like to
> compile the gnome components with debugging symbols in case they are
> needed for whatever I run into.  I did some googling and saw that "-g"
> in /etc/make.conf file will cause debugging symbols to be added.  I also
> read that debugging symbols are automatically stripped when a program is
> installed from ports.  How do I keep debugging symbols in the gnome
> components then?  I see in bsd.port.mk it says that by setting ${STRIP}
> to an empty string will cause debugging symbols to not be stripped.  Do
> I just need to do this?:
> 
> STRIP = ""

Yes.  All of this is mentioned in the Development Branch FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome.  That is a must-read if you plan on
running GNOME 2.5.

Joe

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Tom
> 
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