Re: building with debugging turned on

On Mar 26, 2006, at 11:26 AM, John Reppy wrote:

> Each version comes with a copy of the installation instructions.   
> For example,
>
> 	http://smlnj.org/dist/working/110.58/INSTALL
>
> If you install using the config/install.sh command, then you should  
> be set.  The
> makefile already uses the -g option to compile the runtime, so  
> you'll just need
> to run gdb on it.  For example, if you are in the src/runtime/objs  
> directory (where
>

OK.  I thought I needed to rebuild with debugging turned on.

> the runtime is built), do the following
>
> 	gdb ../../../bin/.run/run.ppc-darwin
>
> and then
>
> 	run @SMLload=../../../bin/.heap/sml
>
> at this point, you'll have SML/NJ running under gdb.
>

Great.  Thank you John !


Brian

> 	- John
>
> On Mar 26, 2006, at 10:36 AM, brian wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Right, the problem is I can't seem to find how to add the -g  
>> option to the build.
>>
>> I think I originally installed using the Mac OS X package.
>>
>> Do I need to grab the sources and build from scratch ?
>>
>> I can't seem to find any guidance in the doc's including  
>> installation instructions and my own travels among the README's.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:28 PM, John Reppy wrote:
>>
>>> This is what I usually do when confronted with a crash.  You  
>>> should compile
>>> the runtime system with "-g" and then run gdb on it.  Use the  
>>> @SMLload option
>>> to the runtime system to load thee sml heap image (the standard  
>>> one is in
>>> bin/.heap.
>>>
>>> 	- John
>>>
>>> On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:56 PM, brian wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well I can't seem to figure out where these seg faults are  
>>>> coming from with nl-ffi so it's time to do things the hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Is it very reasonable to try and build my program with debugging  
>>>> turned on so I can try to track down the problem using gdb ?
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps there is a better way ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>>
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