Re: Debugging on Linux


Subject: Re: Debugging on Linux
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 09:56:30 CDT


According to Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:
> I finally got around to building Abi for Linux/GTK so I could compare
> things and make sure all my patches work as they do on Windows.
> I had *loads* of asserts and a few crashes!
> Would anyone here be able to recommend a debugger for Linux?
> Commandline gdb is pretty daunting. Are there any GUI debuggers
> that are any good? Can anybody point me to good tutorials on
> the net somewhere? What's the best way to simply start gdb
> to debug AbiWord?

ddd is a good GUI frontend to gdb. It is in most distributions.

> Unfortunately, due to crap modems and crap ISP, I can't access
> the internet when I'm in Linux ):

:-(

> Has anyone experimented with the Encoded Text import/export
> on *nix? It seemed to have some nasty problems that I'd like
> to sort out.

Import worked fine as far as I can tell.

> Saving as Unicode gave me files where all the
> non-roman characters turned to "?".

That is most often a problem of display in the terminal rather than a real
problem in the file.

> In some cases I ended
> up with 0-length files with garbage for names being created!

This is BAD.

Hub



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