14 Jan
2012
14 Jan
'12
6:22 p.m.
I've just completed a TDE build from
scratch on a fresh Debian Wheezy system, from the stable
source.
There were a number of issues to do with the source, which
I'll document separately, in case it's useful to others.
One problem that I have so far found with the resulting
installation is 'kicker' crashing when attempting to select
the 'System' sub menu option. In more detail, using the
mouse to select 'K Menu' and then moving the mouse pointer
to the 'System' entry in the upper, 'All Applications'
portion of the menu, _always_ results in a crash, bringing
up the 'KDE Panel - The KDE Crash Handler' dialog box.
Any body any ideas?
Is there a way to determine what, if any, options should be
available on the sub menu on this system? Obviously there
will be different options available on different systems.
Maybe it's crashing cos it's empty.
I seem to recall similar reports a while back. I thought those bugs were resolved. You
might want to check the bugzilla. Maybe also check the web for similar bugs with KDE3.
Just a side thought: if you build local development/testing packages with debugging
enabled, then you'll be able to produce backtraces for the gurus to evaluate. I use
the following in my master build script:
if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ]; then
DEBUG_AUTOTOOL_OPT="--enable-debug=full"
DEBUG_CMAKE_OPT="-ggdb"
else
DEBUG_AUTOTOOL_OPT="--disable-debug"
DEBUG_CMAKE_OPT=""
fi
export DEBUG_CMAKE_OPT
export DEBUG_AUTOTOOL_OPT
The individual package build scripts look like this:
cmake:
cmake
...
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$CPUOPT $DEBUG_CMAKE_OPT" \
...
auomake:
./configure \
...
$DEBUG_AUTOTOOL_OPT \
...
I enable $DEBUG to true as the default and can override when wanted. When I post packages
for other people, I create separate debugging symbol packages. For local testing purposes,
the debugging symbols can remain a part of the overall package.
Debugging support makes much larger packages, but is more useful for testing, which I
think all developers and packagers should be using with unofficial packages. :)
Darrell