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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It's been a little while since I did
some amarok tinkering, but I used the following options when
launching from the debugger, hopefully this helps:<br>
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"--nofork --debug --coloroff"<br>
<br>
It sounds like "--nofork" is what you need if you're not even
hitting a breakpoint in "main"<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sorry for the delayed response.<br>
<br>
On 03/28/2016 11:01 PM, Dan Meltzer wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Well--yes. To be brutally honest, amaroK Development
is pretty much dead. I told you this in irc about a week ago.
The neat thing about open source software is that it's still
available for people to update/maintain as they wish, but a
quick look at the git log should have made it clear that not
much has happened for a few years. So it goes.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 28, 2016 7:07 AM, "Bernd Wechner"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:bwechner@yahoo.com">bwechner@yahoo.com</a>>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Calibri">Amarok
development seems pretty dead to me. Not a single
developer out there who'd help a new guy set up an IDE
that works. A single bug blocking release since I stumbled
in. Almost no traffic on the development mailing list bar
reminders of the blocking bug and regression failures.
Almost no traffic on the IRC channel. <br>
<br>
I've sunk so much time into QtDesigner and Kdeveloper but
am stuck insurmountably to get either of these IDEs to
work as a debugger the way I have used Visual Studio and
Eclipse for years. <br>
<br>
It is simply hard for me to believe that anyone could be
working on a package like this without functional
debugging and in spite of abundant experience developing
software in an abundance of contexts and with an abundance
of tools ranging for disassembled machine code, through C
to Perl and Python and more I have never felt so stupid
and so isolated as in my efforts to get a IDE working
satisfactorily on such a wonderful piece of software.<br>
<br>
And so, regretfully, I will park the whole thing for a
while and turn back to other projects but if I don't find
a simple mentor to help me get an IDE working to debug
Amarok I may well turn back to trying to work on Banshee
or Rhythmbox regretfully. <br>
<br>
My achievements are not trivial and I've updated as best I
can this page:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Hacking_On_Amarok_HowTo"
target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Hacking_On_Amarok_HowTo</a><br>
<br>
I can get the whole code, build it run it, edit it, work
on it but I can't do the one thing I would want to dive
into and learn the innards of a piece of software, debug
it, namely set a breakpoint, hit it and then look at
things, see the stack trace, inspect the variables, walk
through code ... but I am confounded, the instant Amarok
forks breakpoints seem never to trigger. <br>
<br>
Heck if Amarok is a dying project perhaps someone can
motivate one of the departing developers to mentor a
newcomer, to get some docs like the one above to a
position where any half way experienced coder can walk in
and set themselves up and contribute, if only to keep it
alive.<br>
<br>
Sorry to express frustration thusly, but alas I really
have let some important stuff on my plate slide while
stumbling around on this and have to let it be for a bit.
If I am back with a second wind, I may try and approach
the listed developer (About Amarok) one by one on my knees
asking for a mentor or help in motivating one ;-).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Bernd.<br>
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