Am Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:32:26 -0500 schrieb José Alburquerque: > Andreas Volz wrote: > > Am Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:24:41 -0600 schrieb Jonathon Jongsma: > > > > > >> On 1/6/08, Andreas Volz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Use Anjuta, but at least the 2.3.1 unstable release. There're some > >>> debugger stability updates included compared to the last stable > >>> version. Anjuta has the best GUI debugger that I know for Linux. > >>> > >> Admittedly, I'm not a completely neutral observer here, and I don't > >> mean to denigrate the great work the anjuta guys have been doing > >> lately, but I try the anjuta debugger on non-trivial programs from > >> time to time, and I always seem to end up with anjuta crashing. > >> Has that improved in 2.3.1? > >> > > > > Yes, the debugger has been much improved in 2.3.1. All versions > > before crashed really often. It's still not perfect, but I use it > > all the time for debugging. Even my complex multi-threaded > > application is possible to debug with Anjuta 2.3.1. > > > > I added a lot of bug reports for Anjuta and I like to see that the > > developers react very fast and solve the issues often in some days > > in SVN. > > > > Currently I'm testing a special Anjuta patch to use the gdb option > > "-d" to add external source files. This helps me to debug libraries > > that are installed with source and debug info on Gentoo. No other > > GUI that I know has the possibility to step into and through > > libraries that easy. > > > > > You know, by using a "set substitute-path <library-source-path> > <installed-source-path>" in the $HOME/.gdbinit file it is possible to > install the library source somewhere and have gdb replace the path > where the library's debug info says the source should be with where > you've installed the library's source. > > On my system, for example, by using the 'strings' command, I'm able > to see that glibmm's debug info says that the source should be found > in "/build/buildd/glibmm2.4-2.14.2/". I actually installed glibmm's > source in "/usr/src/glibmm2.4-2.14.2". So by including the line "set > substitute-path /build/buildd /usr/src" in ~/.gdbinit gdb has no > problem finding glibmm's source. > > This works with all debuggers (even nemiver) as long as ~/.gdbinit is > processed by gdb when it starts up. :-)
Thanks for that info, I didn't know that. regards Andreas _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
