[ardour-users] ardour 2.0 testing

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Mike Fisher wrote:

> Ok, thank you.  so gdb is a seprate program then?  and I run it like 
> listed above
> $gdb ardour  ----> is this for just debugging to or only for a 
> traceback?  Sorry, I really have no clue about this type of thing.

Yes, gdb is GNU's debugger.  You can use it to do interactive debugging or 
to get traceback information.

http://directory.fsf.org/devel/debug/gdb.html

It's not tough to compile if it isn't on your system already, but 
depending on the OS distro you're using, there may be precompiled 
packages or pre-scripted ebuilds that make it pretty painless to install.

jms