On 26 Mar 2001 00:41:15 -0800, Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:
> I can figure out what's happening and fix if I can figure out how to
> debug evolution-mail, which appears to be started from OAF and not by
> evolution proper. How do Ximian people debug evolution-mail? Do you
> really gdb attach to the running process? That never appears to work for
> me (RedHat 6.2).
Red Hat 6.2 comes with a buggy GDB that gets very confused about
threads if I recall correctly.
But anyway, the way we usually do it is by running evolution-mail in a
separate GDB before starting the shell. If you run a component by
itself, it will register on OAF and wait for other components to invoke
it.
> The Mozilla people wrote a handy document for debugging Mozilla. This
> kind of thing would be INCREDIBLY useful for Evolution users who can code.
> It will also be well worth the time spent writing it.
I agree. We should start writing something like this at some point...
--
Ettore
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