On Apr 24, 2011, at 12:21 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Brad Grupczynski wrote:
>
>> Trying to get gnucash running under gdb. Using "gnucash-gdb". I'm getting
>> many warnings about not being able to find object files.
>>
>> In ".jhbuild-custom" I added:
>> append_autogenargs("aqbanking", " --enable-debug")
>> append_autogenargs("gnucash-svn", " --enable-debug")
>>
>> jhbuild buildone --force --clean aqbanking
>> jhbuild buildone --force --clean gnucash-svn
>>
>> On "gnucash-gdb":
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/html/.libs/libgncmod-html.lax/libc-missing.a/libc-missing-noop.o"
>> - no debug information available for "libc-missing-noop.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/html/.libs/libgncmod-html.lax/libc-missing.a/strptime.o"
>> - no debug information available for "strptime.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/gnome-utils/.libs/libgncmod-gnome-utils.lax/libc-missing.a/libc-missing-noop.o"
>> - no debug information available for "libc-missing-noop.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/gnome-utils/.libs/libgncmod-gnome-utils.lax/libc-missing.a/strptime.o"
>> - no debug information available for "strptime.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.lax/libc-missing.a/libc-missing-noop.o"
>> - no debug information available for "libc-missing-noop.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.lax/libc-missing.a/strptime.o"
>> - no debug information available for "strptime.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/gnc-module/.libs/libgnc-module.lax/libc-missing.a/libc-missing-noop.o"
>> - no debug information available for "libc-missing-noop.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/gnc-module/.libs/libgnc-module.lax/libc-missing.a/strptime.o"
>> - no debug information available for "strptime.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/libqof/qof/.libs/libgnc-qof.lax/libc-missing.a/libc-missing-noop.o"
>> - no debug information available for "libc-missing-noop.c".
>> warning: Could not find object file
>> "/Users/gnucash2/gtk/source/gnucash-svn/src/libqof/qof/.libs/libgnc-qof.lax/libc-missing.a/strptime.o"
>> - no debug information available for "strptime.c".
>>
>> I don't see .lax files anywhere. Ignore these warnings?
>>
>> On another note, and it may not be important, I noticed this when cleaning
>> in several spots:
>> test -z " gnucash .scm-links" || rm -f gnucash .scm-links
>> rm: gnucash: is a directory
>>
>> If we really want "gnucash" deleted then we need "rm -fd". Unless in some
>> places it's a file and this is a catch all.
>
> Gnucash-gdb (which does the same setup as gnucash-launcher, then exec gdb
> gnucash instead of exec gnucash) doesn't
> seem to work right for me. I generally start gnucash-launcher, pause it with
> ctrl-z, get the process number (I use ps | grep gnucash, but you could use
> Activity Montitor if you'd rather), start gdb, and attach the running gnucash
> process. I think, but have never been able to prove, that the trouble is
> caused by having to start dbus in the shell script.
>
> I also find that it's necessary to link the dSYM directories (which are built
> in the individual .libs directories) to be next to their installed libraries
> for gdb to be able to find the symbols.
>
> Aside from dbus, libtool gets in the way. It's a bit of a hack on OSX -- and
> should be unnecessary -- but it's hardwired into the autotools build system.
> Libtool is where all those .la? files come from.
>
> Good point about rm -f gnucash, except that rm -fd will fail, too, because
> the gnucash directories have a symlink in them. The needed command would be
> "rm -rf".
> Not really a big deal though. The symlinks don't take up much space.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
I've actually been trying to get debugging to work under Eclipse. I prefer a
GUI debugger. So far so good. I can set breakpoints, view code, etc.
With respect to dbus. I fire up an instance in a shell (removing
"--exit-with-session") and grab:
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
I plug those into the debugging configuration environment variables (along with
all the other env vars from "gnucash-setup-env") and I'm good. Unless I
reboot/logout, I never need to change it in the configuration.
I don't think I've run into the issue with the dSYM directories. Yet...
Anyone see me running into issues the way I'm doing this?
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Brad Grupczynski
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