[Box Backup] Debugging boxbackup

[Ben Summers]

On 28 Jan 2004, at 15:36, Ben Lovett wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get boxbackup 0.03 building / running properly on 
> OpenBSD/sparc64. The machine in question is running -current (gcc3 
> from base..)
>
> It builds fine, but as I go through the setup steps, create 
> certificates, add certificates, I run into problems.
>
> prozac% sudo /usr/local/bin/bbstoreaccounts # yes, it aborts even with 
> the args
> zsh: 10724 abort      sudo /usr/local/bin/bbstoreaccounts
>
> I tried this patch --
> --- makebuildenv.pl.orig        2004-01-27 20:52:59.000000000 -0800
> +++ makebuildenv.pl     2004-01-27 20:53:05.000000000 -0800
> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ __E
>  #
>  CXX = g++
>  .ifdef RELEASE
> -CXXFLAGS = -DNDEBUG -O2 -Wall $include_paths 
> -D$platform_define$extra_platform_
> defines -DBOX_VERSION="\\"$product_version\\""
> +CXXFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall $include_paths 
> -D$platform_define$extra_platform_defines -D
> BOX_VERSION="\\"$product_version\\""
>  OUTBASE = ../../release
>  OUTDIR = ../../release/$mod
>  DEPENDMAKEFLAGS = -D RELEASE
>
> and that ended up making the build fail due to missing symbols 
> (lib/debug) stuff..
>
> Ben, what are you doing to enable debugging? Maybe I'm just missing 
> it...

To build, say, bbstoreaccounts in debug mode, simply do

   cd bin/bbstoreaccounts
   make

Then you'll find the debug exe in debug/bin/bbstoreaccounts. (I default 
to debug mode as that's the one I use most.)

Of course, typing make at top level does release mode -- this 
effectively does

   cd bin/bbstoreaccounts
   make -D RELEASE

(the release exe goes in release/bin/bbstoreaccounts)

There are some programmer's notes in the "notes" directory.

I'm very curious about where the abort happens. Thanks for trying it on 
an unusual platform!

Ben