gnome 2.5 debugging symbols

[Tom McLaughlin]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 00:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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
> 
D'oh!  Forgot about the FAQ last night.  Thanks a bunch.

Tom