how to add debug symbols in evolution? (was Fwd: [Bug 507579] crash in Evolution:)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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paul beard wrote:
| On 1/7/08, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
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|> paul beard wrote:
|> | I'd like to be able to help here, but I have no idea how to add debug
|> | symbols to a port. Can you advise?
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|> See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html and pay attention to
|> the section about backtraces.
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| Seemed hard to find this information last night, but I figured it out
| eventually. I don't think that page ever came back in a search result.
| I documented it for myself and anyone else similar situated.
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http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/01/07/building-debugging-symbol-enabled-software-in-freebsd/
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| This is as close as I came
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(http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/DistroSpecificInstructions#head-604f4aa9d55d55ec1a1c9265b752c811f37fd4f6)
| and it doesn't really help unless you want global debugging. Maybe
| someone could clarify or refine that?

The FreeBSD page indicates how to build one port with debugging symbols.

FYI, I submitted a patch for your problem to freebsd-gnome just a little
while ago.  The problem is calloc(0, sizeof(time_t)) returns NULL on
FreeBSD 6.X.

Joe

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