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[Joost De Cock]

Quoting Ramon van Alteren <ramon at forgottenland.net>:

>If you are by any chance running gentoo linux, you can also rebuild your
>stable kdepim package with debug information by running
>"USE="debug" emerge kdepim" Be aware that whis will double the space of the
>resulting executables. It will also allow you to get backtraces and debuginfo
>on current bugs & crashes.

Can't I get all this debug info on Debian? That would surprise me. There's got
to be some option to pass the configure script to enable it not?
If I want to be serious about testing, I think I should be able to collect
backtraces and debug info, or isn't that so?


>Should you have any questions feel free to ask.

I just did :)

joost


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