KDE / Qt debug symbols

fthieme · 2011-01-30 12:10:01

Hi!

As a former KDEmod user I wonder if there are any debug symbols for all the KDE and Qt packages. I would love to help the community with reasonable crash reports and even debug myself a bit...

Cheers

the_isz · 2011-01-30 12:24:19

I think all packages from the official repositories contain (optimized) release
builds, so they won't contain debugging symbols. You'll have to create a
debugging build yourself if you need those.

wonder · 2011-01-30 12:30:31

does kde crash so often ?

fthieme · 2011-01-30 13:03:19

In KDEmod there were optimized builds with seperate debugging symbols. I wonder if its possible to have the same in Archlinux.

wonder wrote:

does kde crash so often ?

KDE itsself doesn't crash that often. But under some circumstances parts of it do crash. And in that case debugging symbols help a lot to solve the bug...

(at the moment kwin crashes if I view videos on youtube in fullscreen, using flashplugin-prerelease in firefox on x86_64)

Damnshock · 2011-01-30 16:42:42

The lack of debug/devel packages is the only downside I've found at using Archlinux.

Anyway, if you really need the debug symbols it's only a matter of changing "Release" by "Debug" on the proper PKGBUILD (which you can find with abs)

Regards

fthieme · 2011-01-30 17:49:08

Damnshock wrote:

Anyway, if you really need the debug symbols it's only a matter of changing "Release" by "Debug" on the proper PKGBUILD (which you can find with abs)

Or RelWithDebug - yeah I know.

And after that you just have to compile it. But KDE isn't a piece of software, you compile between breakfast and lunch...

Cheers

Arch Linux

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KDE / Qt debug symbols

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