Re: how to debug (and fix) mutt?
On 2006-02-22, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-02-22, Bram Mertens <bram-mertens@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Can I add some options to add more logging? Mutt is unusable like this
> > at the moment.
>
> If you configured mutt with --enable-debug, mutt should dump a
> debuggable core file when it segfaults. The stack backtrace from
> the core file may provide more insight than the log file.
According to the debian/rules file below the mutt source dir mutt is
built with --enable-debug but no core file is produced. At least not
where I'm looking for it, core files are dumped in the current dir,
right?
Can I start mutt from a debugger to get a stacktrace that way?
Regards
Bram
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