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Re: how to debug (and fix) mutt?



On 2006-02-21, Bram Mertens <bram-mertens@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I performed a dist-upgrade today, updating everything to the latest
> version.
> 
> Then I rebuilt the mutt package after installing the required packages.
> Building went fine but still mutt segfaults when I try to send a message
> and while opening (large) Maildir mailboxes.
> 
> Is there anything else I can provide to find the source of this problem?
> 
> Running mutt -d 9 doesn't provide any more detail than -d 3 does.
> However it might be a good idea to add a warning that debugging at level
> 9 causes the user's password to be dumped as clear text to the
> .muttdebug0 file!

Did you run "make distclean" and configure again before you rebuilt 
mutt?  The output of configure is cached and may contain references 
to libraries and such as they were before you installed the new 
packages.  I don't know for sure if this could be the problem in 
your case, but it has bitten me before.

To be sure you have a clean build, execute

    make distclean
    ./configure <your configure options>
    make
    make install

HTH,
Gary

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Gary Johnson                               | Agilent Technologies
garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   | Wireless Division
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