[GRASS5] bug reports for GRASS 5.7

[Scott Mitchell]

The developer tools include the standard GNU tools, including gdb, the 
debugger.

So you start the program within the debugger using

gdb program_name (which is the full path to the grass module, in this 
case probably something like 
/usr/local/grass57-13_02_2004/bin/g.mapsets)

which will put you in to a gdb prompt.  From there, enter
run -l

to start the program with -l as the argument.  When you get to the 
error, it will put you back at the gdb prompt, and you can enter the 
command "where" to get a traceback of where it happened in the program. 
  Use "quit" to get out to your shell.

Actually, you can probably skip all that, because I decided to test my 
instructions before sending, and my machine generates the error too.  
So keep this for future reference, and Glynn, here are the results, I 
wish they meant something to me:

(gdb) run -l
Starting program: /usr/local/grass57-13_02_2004/bin/g.mapsets -l
Reading symbols for shared libraries +++.. done

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x8fe1a528 in __dyld__dyld_start ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x8fe1a528 in __dyld__dyld_start ()
warning: ppc_frame_chain_valid: stack pointer from 0xbffffab4 to 0x1000 
grows upward; assuming invalid

#1  0x00000000 in ?? ()



On Apr 2, 2004, at 15:01, Michael Barton wrote:

>
> On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 12:54  PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
>> Can you run "g.mapsets -l" under a debugger and get a backtrace?
>>
>
> Probably.
>
> I'm copying this to Scott Mitchell who may have a suggestion along 
> these lines. I have all the Apple developer tools installed. So this 
> means that I certainly have access to debugging tools. I simply don't 
> know what they are. If you know of any generic ones for BSD Unix 
> and/or tcshell, I will give them a try.
>
> Michael
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