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[Ramon van Alteren]

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On Friday 05 March 2004 12:44, 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?

Sure you can, If you compile from source it's never a problem.
Most distros use binary packages and the packagers do not enable-debug and 
they shouldn't. 

If you used apt-get to install a KDE-stable working environment it's most 
likely not enabled.

Within gentoo you can achieve that by the command I typed.
(emerge = apt-get for gentoo)

> >Should you have any questions feel free to ask.
>
> I just did :)

Good for you :-D

Cheers Ramon.

ramon at vanalteren.nl
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