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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2009-11-16 03:21:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2009-11-16 03:21:50 +0100 |
| commit | 8a8dfc9d55c6045d59bed6cde4ae6e2307b335ea (patch) | |
| tree | 2d1a19365d6f2982f0bded22293e5be1dde6dbce /HACKING | |
| parent | d2dbb04a9af7a18da217fb21b9152626c43461da (diff) | |
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HACKING: add some notes about valgrind/gdb usage
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -133,6 +133,19 @@ For pacman: #include "anythingelse.h" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +GDB and Valgrind Usage +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When using GDB or valgrind on pacman, you will want to run it on the actual +binary rather than the shell script wrapper produced by libtool. The actual +binary lives at `src/pacman/.libs/lt-pacman`, and will exist after running +`./src/pacman/pacman` at least once. + +For example, to run valgrind: + + ./src/pacman/pacman + valgrind --leak-check=full -- src/pacman/.libs/lt-pacman -Syu + ///// vim: set ts=2 sw=2 syntax=asciidoc et: ///// |