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On Monday 14 October 2002 08:44, Keith Robinson wrote:
> I am sure this is a painfully easy question:
>
> I am installing a progam from source. How do i compile it so that
> later I can run debug it with gdb? I've tried alias gcc='gcc -g'
> (from bash) but that doesn't work. I've tried setting CC = gdd
> -g in the Makefile, but that doesn't work, at least doesn't
> appear to.
some configure scripts come with a debug enabling flag. you may want to look
for one.
barring that, you can often do:
CC='gcc -g'; ./configure
or you can hand hack the Makefile, as you appear to have attempted. the CC=
line is often, but not always, what ends up getting used. you may need to do
a search in the file for where "gcc" appears and append a -g to it at each
location. also remember that you will need to do this for each Makefile in
each subdirectory, if there are any. which is why doing it w/configure is so
much nicer =)
oh, and just to ask the silly question: this is a C program and not a C++
program or some such, right?
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Aaron J. Seigo
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