Bug#422483: gdm: segfault after XDMCP chooser

[gildor at debian.org]

Loïc Minier writes: 

> On Sun, May 06, 2007, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
>> I see no function name, i think that i have a debug stripped binary.
>> Maybe, this is not as useful as you want.
> 
>  Indeed; unfortunately, the package currently in unstable can not be
>  built automatically in debug mode, it requires some modifications; the
>  version in SVN supports it though. 
> 
>  So, we can continue debugging in the following ways:
>  1) build out of SVN:
>    - checkout from
>      svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gdm
>    - take the tarball from the archive, put in ../tarballs
>    - build with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip noopt" svn-buildpackage
>  2) take the source from the archive and:
>    - add on top of the file:
>      CFLAGS += -Wall -g -O$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2)
>    - change ./configure $(configure_flags) into:
>      ./configure $(configure_flags) CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)"
>  3) ask me to build packages in debug mode for you 
> 

Since i am lazy, i prefer solution 3. Another reason :
* 1 is not possible because i have no ssh access to pkg-gnome (i think)
* 2 is possible, but take time to me ;-)
* 3 is possible, but take time to you ;-) 

> 
>  What do you prefer? 
> 

Please, do what you have time for. 

>  I'll try to introduce a "gdm-dbg" package as soon as the current
>  package in unstable starts being stabilized. 
> 

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall