Howto debug KDE CVS application ?

[Christian Prochnow]

Hi !

Seems like KGet forks to background upon startup, like many KDE applications.
Try passing the argument "--nofork" to the process and you should be fine.

Regards,
Christian Prochnow


Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2004 18:38 schrieb Thomas McGuire:
> Hello,
>
> I want to debug a KDE CVS application (KGet), but I can not get it to work.
> My source directory of kdenetwork is /home/tmg/src/kde/kdenetwork,
> my build directory /home/tmg/src/kde/build_debug/kdenetwork and
> my KDE directory /home/tmg/kde_debug.
>
> As described in the "How to use KDevelop with KDE CVS"-Guide I used
> "Project->Import existing project" to import the whole kdenetwork module.
> Afterwards I set KGet as the active target.
> Then I set "Build directory" in "Configure Options" to
> /home/tmg/src/kde/build_debug/kdenetwork.
> In "Run Options", I set the following things:
> "Main program" to /home/tmg/src/kde/build_debug/kdenetwork/kget/kget
> "Custom directory" to /home/tmg/src/kde/build_debug/kdenetwork/kget/
>
> I hope all these settings are correct, but I don't know for sure.
>
> Now strange things happen when I execute the program:
> In the application output tab, the message "*** Exited normally ***" is
> shown soon after starting it, but KGet is still running.
> Because of this, I can not debug. If I set a breakpoint, gdb
> confirms that with
>
> >Breakpoint 1 at 0x80699b0:
>
> file /home/tmg/src/kde/kdenetwork/kget/transferlist.cpp, line 266,
> but exits shortly after this with
>
> >Detaching after fork from child process 11219.
> >Program exited normally.
>
> So the program is not interruppted when it reaches the breakpoint.
>
> So what do I have to do in order to make debugging possible?
> I think all this is related to the fact that the main
> progam /home/tmg/src/kde/build_debug/kdenetwork/kget/kget is only a script
> or a wrapper or whatever which calls the "real" application inside.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
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