Debug binaries...

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 04:38:09PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> | On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 04:19:39PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> |> I'm not willing to go there yet.  Just more work for
> |> little payoff.  Is './configure --enable-debug' really so hard?
> |
> | For people who just do :
> |
> | rpm -Uvh samba*.rpm
> |
> | it's not just hard, it's *impossible*. They simply don't
> | know how to do this.
> 
> Then getting a backtrace out of them will be impossible
> as well.   Your arguement is not convincing me.

No, it's much easier to teach people to type :

ps axwu | grep smbd
gdb /usr/sbin/smbd
attach <pid>
bt

(see, I just did it :-) than to teach them to make
a new rpm package.

Jeremy.