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git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@9112 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
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Linas Vepstas 2003-08-17 20:29:25 +00:00
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@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ August 22, 2000
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Starting Gnucash from the build tree:
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To run gnucash from your build tree:
-- edit ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash and replace gnucash-env with
@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ To run gnucash from your build tree:
Starting GnuCash in GDB
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To run gdb on an installed version of gnucash (installed in /usr/local/bin:)
% gnucash-env gdb /usr/bin/guile
@ -93,7 +94,24 @@ To run gdb on the version in your build tree:
% gdb> run -e main -s ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash --g-fatal-warnings
Using Valgrind with gnucash
Using Electric Fence with GnuCash
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% configure --enable-efence
(except this doesn't actually enable efence :-( need to hack
configure.in and add $LIBS = -lefence and re-run ./autogen.sh)
Don't know why, efence does not currently work with gnucash:
I get a bunch of errors:
warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: unknown thread_db error '22'
If you know how to fix this, please update tehse instructions.
Using Valgrind with GnuCash
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-- run ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash-valgrind
However, I did not find valgrind to be useful.
However, I did not find valgrind to be useful. It reported a bunch of
guile bugs, some g_has_table bugs, and then the program exited prematurely
for no appearenet reason. :-(
If you know how to fix this, please update tehse instructions.