mail/glbiff dumps core on 5.3-RELEASE-p2

Volker Stolz vs at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 10 01:35:55 PST 2005


In gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports, you wrote:
> Do you know if there are any current problems with glbiff?  I got it to
> crashola on my box.  The stack trace is huge, making me wonder if it's
> running away recursively.  I have no debugging symbols in my copy, so the
> core isn't usable as-is.

If you have to software installed and build it (again) from source, usually
the binary in the port's working directory still has its debugging symbols
since they're only stripped on installation. So you should be able
to run the binary from this directory and get a meaningful backtrace.

Cheers,
  Volker
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