Re: [Libreoffice] Debugging crash in 3.3.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.6 - [SOLVED}

OK guys:

On 2011-05-09, at 11:59 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:

Hi Peter,
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 11:25 -0400, Peter Teeson wrote:

It was indeed!!

:-)

Removing that font made everything work correctly!

Sure - but LibreOffice should never crash; so we still have to fix the problem.

I agree 100% with "never crash." We should at least trap the exception.

All of this done without having to go through the torture of gdb on

the command line <grin>

And to fix the problem; we need that gdb work done.

I'm going to need hand holding for that. 

The good news is -
that you can do it on the same system you built on now I guess.
And/or better - you could send the font to Thorsten who may be able to
help (post the 3.4 fixing).

Here is the problem font

Attachment: FreeSans.ttf
Description: Binary data

I am willing to try using gdb from the command line.

But after reading the Development/How to debug I am no wiser.

At this point I need step by step Terminal instructions.

As a starter so far this is what I have done following previous advice:

(0) A successful regular 3.3.2 build

(1)  As advised by Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387@gmail.com>

cd git/libo

source MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh
cd sc
make -sr clean #build told me to use make -sr
make -sr debug=true

Do I still need to do this?

(2)   $ cd git/libo

# then do as advised by Michael

$ source MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh

$ cd vcl
$ rm -Rf *.pro # the output directory [unxmacxi - editor]
$ build debug=true

Anyway what is vcl?

(3) Now what?

As a comment in passing is there a block diagram of the overall architecture?

e.g. the 19 repos mentioned in the dev doc. I can grock pictures better than text.

I find the learning curve for the folklore pretty steep. <smile>.

respect....

Peter