How to compile nautilus with debug symbols from ports?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:57:27 -0600, Andrew Reilly  
<andrew at areilly.bpc-users.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I had nautilus crash on me, the other day.  I think that I can
> repeat the crash: well, it's happened twice, doing the same thing
> (attempting a VFS mount of a file share from a Windows laptop
> that requires authentication).  So I installed bugbuddy so that
> it could phone home to the GNOME folks to tell them what was up,
> but although the _process_ seems to have worked, and a bug
> registered, it wasn't able to find a core dump, and the core dump
> wouldn't have had much useful symbolic info, anyway.
>
> So: what's happened to nautilus' .core file?  Is there some fancy
> clean-up mechanism going on?  I imagine so: that must be how
> bugbuddy gets invoked in the first place.  Can this be overriden
> so that I can get a core file to point gdb at?
>
> Secondly: is there a convenient port-build global knob for
> turning on debugging symbols?  Anything more complicated than
> CFLAGS+=-g in /etc/make.conf?

See in http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html#q3 for what to put  
in make.conf.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Cheers,


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