[scribus-dev] Typical setup for debugging Scribus

[Owen]

> Hi all,
> I'm struggling with the correct setup/environment to debug Scribus.
> Could anyone walk me through the steps of debugging Scribus? I'm using
> command line gdb at the moment. I have compiled it into an executable
> file (in a separate build folder, of course) and run "gdb -d source-
> directory scribus" but look like it doesn't recognize any source
> files. Without the source files attached, it's quite difficult to
> figure out what's going on. I have tried the debugger in QtCreator as
> well but the program doesn't break at my specified break points. I
> guess it's also because the executable file and the source files did
> not associate at all.
> I'm running it on Ubuntu, by the way. Any suggestion for other IDEs I
> might try is also welcome.



You dont say, but did you build with 'WANT_DEBUG=1'  ?

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Owen