[gst-devel] Question: How do I obtain a better gdb back trace of segmentation faults?

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi David,

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 21:53, David Parr wrote:
> 1. Compiled / Linked gstreamer (0.8.8), gst-plugin (0.8.7), gst-ffmpeg (0.8.3) from source with '-g -O0' to enable debugging information and to disable compiler optimizations.
>    $ CFLAGS='-g -O0' CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS ./configure
>    $ make
>    $ su
>    # make install
>    # exit
[..]
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x4063ade5 in ?? ()

It might be that the binaries have been stripped at some point.
Alternatively, it could be using other plugins (make sure you
uninstalled any other gst-plugins/gst-ffmpeg installations). Other than
that, this is hard to explain.

Ronald

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