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Introduction
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This is a short tutorial on debugging KDE applications. Throughout this
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This is a short tutorial on debugging TDE applications. Throughout this
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tutorial I will use "kedit" as example application.
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=========================
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You can use --enable-debug with the configure script, if you want to have
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debug code in your KDE libs. If you have the space and can stand code that's
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debug code in your TDE libs. If you have the space and can stand code that's
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somewhat slower, this is worth it. The extra information really
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helps debugging and thus bugfixing.
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(gdb) break main
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Breakpoint 1 at 0x804855c
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(gdb) run
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Starting program: /opt/kde/bin/kedit myfile.txt
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Starting program: /opt/trinity/bin/kedit myfile.txt
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Breakpoint 1 at 0x4002cf18: file kedit.cpp, line 1595.
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Breakpoint 1, main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff814) at kedit.cpp:1595
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There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
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/home1/bastian/21570: No such file or directory.
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Attaching to program: /opt/kde/bin/kedit, Pid 21570
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Reading symbols from /opt/kde/lib/kedit.so.0...done.
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Loaded symbols for /opt/kde/lib/kedit.so.0
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Attaching to program: /opt/trinity/bin/kedit, Pid 21570
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Reading symbols from /opt/trinity/lib/kedit.so.0...done.
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Loaded symbols for /opt/trinity/lib/kedit.so.0
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....
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Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
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Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
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(gdb)
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You will usually end up in the middle of a select() call from the event-loop.
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This is the place where a KDE application spends most of its time, waiting
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This is the place where a TDE application spends most of its time, waiting
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for things to happen.
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A backtrace will typically look something like this:
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If you want to have a core dump after your application crashes you need to
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do two things:
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1) Disable the KDE crash handler. This can be done either by using the
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1) Disable the TDE crash handler. This can be done either by using the
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--nocrashhandler command line option or by setting the KDE_DEBUG environment
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variable to some value e.g. KDE_DEBUG=true.
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