Re: [gnome-love] debugger

[julio <julio7k gmail com>]

On 19/04/2015 21:43, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 21:33 -0600, julio wrote:
> > Hi, how are you?
> >
> > I am new to gnome and I am working on my first bug and fortunately I've
> > received help from many developers, but I'm still not able to fix the
> > bug :( . I have a general question: is there any tool or debugger that
> > you would recommend to keep track of the application state?, I am used
> > to set breakpoints and see variable's content and I know there is gdb
> > but I think that maybe it is more for low level stuff (assembly), or
> > maybe I am wrong and there are features I don't know about. I guess some
> > of you could point out something that could help me with this  :).
> You can use plain gdb or any UI built on top of gdb to trace a program.
> Nemiver provides an UI for gdb.
>
> In order to see the symbols, install the packages with the debugging
> information. For example, Evince (the document viewer) package in Ubuntu
> is called 'evince', but there is also one called 'evince-dbg'. You the
> latest one.
Thank you Germán,
I am running the program on the jhbuild environment and I could attach 
the debugger to the process gnome-photos :) is there any way to build 
the source code with debbuging symbols using jhbuild?