kdevelop and debug with libtool

[Niko Sams]

Hi,

The easiest solution would be to attach to your debugee. But yes,
that's inconvenient
and doesn't work always.

I debugged a libtool executable some time ago, this is how it worked for me:
libtool creates a script that does some magic and in the end executes
./.libs/binary
After rebuild i started the application once manually and from that on
I could execute
the binary in .libs directy - also using kdevelop.

I actually don't have any knowledge about libtool...

Niko

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:20 PM, dAgeCKo <dagecko at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was used to debug directly on the console. But now I'd like to use
> kdevelop to ease my life a bit since the programs I have to debug are quite
> big.
>
> The project is a set of several libraries (.so) and several binary
> executable files, which, since I use libtool to create the libraries, are
> hidden in a subdirectory and replaced by a script file.
> So, to debug them manually I usually enter such a command:
>
> libtool --mode=execute gdb 'name_of_the_script'
>
> I tried to make kdevelop does it this way, but failed all my attempts.
>
> On the Internet, when searching, I could see that this is a common problem
> with Kdevelop since several years (I could saw topics from 2006 for example,
> and Kdevelop 3.x series).
>
> So, is the problem still not solved ? How do people using kdevelop achieve
> to debug programs using libtool ? I can't beleive people here just use the
> console instead: it will make the debug tools from kdevelop quite useless,
> since, AFAIK, libtool projects are quite predominant over simple binary
> projects.
>
> I don't want to do a make install before (this is quite an heavy task).
>
> What I actually tried:
>
> * entered the debugger executable as libtool --mode=execute gdb
> -> nothing happens
> * entered the debugger executable as a script which encapsulates the
> previous command
> -> kdevelop complains that the executable is not in an executable format
> -> use a debugging shell (bash) for the previous commands
> -> fails
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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