Are you completely attached to Xiphos?

There is also a program BibleTime http://www.bibletime.info/.

It looks like it's based on the same software that Xiphos is built on. I
don't use either so I don't know.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Scott Vargovich <bluesfrea...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Thanks - I see your point.
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Christopher Miller <
> lordsauronthegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Scott Vargovich wrote:
>>
>> Here's what gdb shows:
>>
>> <command line>
>> scott@enigma1:~$ gdb xiphos
>> GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2
>> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
>> and "show warranty" for details.
>> This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
>> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
>> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/xiphos...(no debugging symbols
>> found)...done.
>> (gdb)
>> </command line>
>>
>> I did read the man page, but not sure how to proceed from here.  HELP???
>>
>>
>> GDB is only going to be useful if you have the debugging symbols for the
>> program you're trying to debug.
>>
>> When the compiler emits the final machine code, it has the option of
>> emitting a (lot) of additional information in the execution binary which
>> illustrates function names and variable offsets. It helps tie the source
>> code to the generated code. GDB uses this to say "Hey, this pointer here
>> named 'foo' defined on line 23 of file bar.c goes to garbage data" instead
>> of "Hey, this pointer here at memory offset 0xfff923a23 goes to garbage
>> data!"
>>
>> Overall, unless you're interested in learning a lot about programming and
>> the dark arts of debugging, I strongly recommend you just submit a bug
>> report. For a userland application like what you're using, the probability
>> that they'd have a debug build in the repo is about nil; you'd have to
>> download the source yourself and build it. And at that point, what's the
>> point? Then you'd just get a more up-to-date version that probably works
>> better anyways.
>>
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