Re: [Pan-users] can you run Pan 2 on anything but GNOME/Linux? (and how to donate?)

[David Chmelik]

On 9/1/20 1:06 PM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> If you can download the debug package for your distro, or even 
> download the Pan source and build it for yourself and then get the 
> crash backtrace, I volunteer to take a look at it.

FreeBSD mainly has debugging packages for the entire OS, such as lib32 
or lib64... I tried those, and X Window System desktop environments (DE) 
were unusably slow.  But I can try compiling from the latest Pan 2 
source code...

> I've fixed a couple of Pan crashes for myself so I am somewhat familiar.
>
> Run your pan in a terminal window with "gdb pan"
> Once it crashes you should be at a gdb prompt that looks like "(gdb)", 
> then type "info local" and then type "thread apply all bt" and put the 
> results here or in a link like you did before.
>
> "bt" is a shortcut for "backtrace" and what it does it display all of 
> the function calls that lead to the current program execution. "thread 
> apply all" applies the next command to every thread in the program. So 
> it makes a backtrace report for each thread.
>
> "info local" is often not useful because of optimization, but it tries 
> to display the values of each variable at the current program location.


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