Re: Running gdb in the build tree Re: OWP: Introduction for Gabriela Gibson

[Daniel Shahaf <da...@apache.org>]

Hyrum K Wright wrote on Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:05:23 -0500:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Gabriela Gibson
> <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 21/01/13 11:05, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:02:22PM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 12/10/2012 07:32 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Gabriela Gibson wrote on Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 00:21:19 +0000:
> >>>>
> >>>>> For my initial submission I have written a test for issue 4263 which
> >>>>> I'll mail shortly.  I admit that I struggled to figure out how to
> >>>>> connect gdb to svnrdump in my build tree (since svnrdump is actually a
> >>>>> shell script, and svnrdump reads from stdin) but I am now working on a
> >>>>> fix for 4263.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> libtool --mode=execute gdb -args subversion/svnrdump/svnrdump
> >>>>
> >>>> (documentation patches welcome...)
> >>>>
> >>>
> > A collection of 'how to debug svn' tips would be nice to have, and this
> > thread seems like a good place to post them.
> 
> 
> We might want to think about putting them on the site or on the wiki, as it
> might be hard for newcomers to find them buried in an email thread.  But I
> agree that a location collecting debugging tips would be useful.

http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/BuildNotes ?

Re: Running gdb in the build tree Re: OWP: Introduction for Gabriela Gibson

[Gabriela Gibson <ga...@gmail.com>]

On 21/01/13 16:11, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Hyrum K Wright wrote on Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:05:23 -0500:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Gabriela Gibson
>> <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:

>>
>> We might want to think about putting them on the site or on the wiki, as it
>> might be hard for newcomers to find them buried in an email thread.  But I
>> agree that a location collecting debugging tips would be useful.
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/BuildNotes ?
>
There is a debugging section in the web pages, that could do with some 
polish:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/debugging.html

or perhaps it should be moved to the wiki?