On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 18:14 -0500, Mark wrote: > On Sun November 1 2009 07:59:26 am Peter Clifton wrote: > > As it stands, the back-traces don't help a great deal, since they are > > missing a load of the debug information required. > > > > What distro do you use? Usually there are "-dbg", "-dbgsym" or "-debug" > > packages for various libraries. To fill in the "??" sections of the > > back-trace, you need those installed. I'd suggest you probably need the > > ones for: > > I'm using Slackware 12.1 and so far I've been unable to find any packaged > debug libraries. I'm > tempted to compile them myself with debug enabled but I expect that to take a > little while mostly > because of the effort of locating the proper libs. > > > (Ubuntu package names in brackets) > > > > xlib (libx11-6-dbg) > > xcb (libxcb1-dbg, libx11-xcb1-dbg, possibly others) > > gtk (libgtk2.0-0-dbg) > > glib (libglib2.0-dbg) > > gtk-gl-ext (libgtkglext1-dbg) > > C Library (libc6-dbg) > > How different are Ubuntu's libraries (packages) compared to the bone stock > ones straight from the > project developers? I'm not certain they would really work on Slackware.
I'm not sure.. I tried to find some slackware packages, but their site is terminally broken.. Installing custom compiled versions of system libraries is typically a recipe for a broken system disaster.. since it is difficult to know what patches / fixes / compile options a distro will use to put together a working suite. On Ubuntu, the debug libraries are not installed in /usr/lib/..., they hide in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/.... (Under /usr/lib/debug is an image of the file-system, but just with debug libraries). This means tools like gdb can use the debugging version of a library (or grab its debug symbols at least), without affecting the run-time performance of any other parts of the system. If you had a spare HDD, installing Ubuntu (or one of the other more modern distributions) would probably be the easiest way to proceed IMO. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user