[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] A good debugger infrastructure

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:16 +0200, ext Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:38 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
>  
> > > I didn't try, no.
> > You should definitely try first :)
> > 
> > gdbserver is included into gdb package. You can install it from 
> > http://repository.maemo.org/ repo:
> > 
> > echo "deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral free non-free"
> > >> /etc/apt/sources.list
> > apt-get update && apt-get install gdb
> 
> 
> The gdbserver didn't work. It crashed. But gdb on the device itself (in
> an xterm), however does work. Pity it's a little bit difficult because
> my ui's are always full screen. But I'll manage.
> 
> Thanks for these packages, whoever made them. This is really helping me.
> 
> Tapping "u p" and "d o w n" now :)
> 
How exactly gdbserver crashed? Did you try to run application with it or
to attach to existing pid? I only tried with simple non-gui applications
(ping, tracepath) and it worked without any problem.

-- 
Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>
Nokia-M/Helsinki