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

[paul beard]

On 1/7/08, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
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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?
> |>
> |> See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html and pay attention to
> |> the section about backtraces.
> |>
> | 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.
> |
> |
> http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/01/07/building-debugging-symbol-enabled-software-in-freebsd/
> |
> | This is as close as I came
> |
> (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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> Joe Marcus Clarke
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