How to produce debugging symbols?

Martin Moeller mm at bsdsi.com
Wed Mar 26 20:39:39 PST 2003


* Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> [26.03.03 21:13]:
> If it's your program, recompile and link with the -g commandline switch
> added.  If it's a base FreeBSD program (or port), edit the Makefile and
> add a line reading "DEBUG_FLAGS=-g" (this will compile with -g and also
> no strip the debugging symbols when the binary gets installed).

Thanks for your response, Dan.
I tried that out with gnuls package in the ports and added
DEBUG_FLAGS=-g
to /usr/ports/misc/gnuls/Makefile

Without any success, though.

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