Re: Debugging X server components in the new world order

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 22, 2008, at 05:37, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:19:47AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > This might be a stupid question, but how do people debug parts of  
> > the X server
> > in the brave new modular xorg world?
>
> It indeed was kindof a stupid question - thanks to Matthieu Herrb  
> for clueing
> me in.
>
> The crucial bit is: the module loader is now dlopen() based, so gdb  
> will
> just work.

Hmm, that's what XFree86 does on sgimips, with all sorts of funky  
side effects like module dependencies not working properly. I'm not  
sure what's more annoying - fixing out Xserver or making Xorg work  
before the next release.

> Getting the debug info into the binary etc. is standard autoconf  
> stuff. Maybe
> we should add support for the global "debug" option to the modular- 
> xorg
> packages?

Yes please :)

have fun
Michael

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