Re: How to debug F-Spot

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 12:10 +0100, Ali Servet Donmez wrote:
> Hey Ruben,
> 
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:43 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> > It seems as if you miss .mdb (debug symbols), which is why it can't make
> > a trace.
> 
> I'm not sure if that's the real issue here. I see all those missing
> *.mdb lines, but debugger will still go on without'em, the problem --I
> believe-- when an exception is caught...
> 
> Then I figured out actually a System.DllNotFoundException is thrown and
> that's because /home/exalted/unstable/f-spot/lib/f-spot/libfspot.so.0 is
> not there. Apparently you have to install f-spot before debugging to
> path where you've specified in autogen.sh (or configure) with prefix
> parameter.
> 
> Once you issue "make install" on build directory then debugger will run
> that's because all *.so* files are where they should be.

Fair enough :-) Did you actually get the debugger to function correctly?
That would be an achievement that has always been impossible to reach on
my system. Should try again.