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[Tom Chance]

On Friday 05 Mar 2004 11:44, Joost De Cock wrote:
> 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?

This should work:

./configure --enable-debug

Regards,
Tom