debugging applications with libtool

[Vladimir Prus]

On Monday 05 June 2006 21:13, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> Several people have seen this problem when they were unable to debug
> kdevelop from itself. The problem occurs when the debug shell is libtool
> and autotools build system produces libtool wrapper scripts to lauch the
> application.
>
> To reproduce, create any kde application from the template, add a
> subproject, add a libtool library installed in lib and build. You will see
> that $(top_builddir)/src/appname is not an executable anymore, but rather a
> libtool wrapper script. Same applies to KDevelop source tree.

Hi Alexander,
can you describe the reproduction steps in more detail, or even better, send a 
small project where this problem appears. I've tried to follow the steps 
above and got "No rule to build XXX.la.lo". Maybe this is related to the fact 
that I never used automake.

Thanks,
Volodya