Re: [Arx-users] Segfault accessing the publix ArX archive

[Walter Landry]

Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
> > That would be very useful.  Just run configure as
> > 
> > ./configure CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" --prefix=/path/to/install/dir
> 
> That doesn't seem to have been enough. Don't I also need to tell the 
> linker that I want debugging info?
> 
> When I run gdb, I get:
> 
> ---
> warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
> GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
> and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 16384 (LWP 6649)]
> ---
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something else. I haven't tried to debug C++ on this 
> machine before. Debugging C seems to work fine.

That doesn't look like an actual error.  What happens when you
actually "run arx"?

> As an aside, it would be nice if arx --version reported the build 
> date/time, in addition to the version. It would help me confirm that I'm 
> really running the version I just recompiled.

Yes, it would be nice.  I think a configure-time variable would work
best, in which case we would require an autoconf variable.  If you
know the appropriate autoconf incantation, it would save me some time.

Thanks,
Walter