[gmx-developers] Re: gmx-developers Digest, Vol 72, Issue 10

[Esztermann, Ansgar]

On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:59 , David van der Spoel wrote:
> 
>> I used only gdb provided with Ubuntu 9.10 and recent release of gcc4.5.
>> DDD's tutorial sample was debugged without any problem. Solutions
>> suggested in internet mainly refer to the lack of compilation without
>> "-g" flag which seems to be not my case.
>> 
>> Could successful DDD users give me some hint how to correctly debug
>> gromacs?
> I'm not sure that using the enable-debug flag really adds -g. You might 
> want to compile with
> make CFLAGS=-g

>From a quick look at configure, it does, but only if you do not set CFLAGS yourself.
As to the original question, ddd is nothing but a front-end for gdb, so it should work if gdb does. I would suggest testing the same binary both with gdb and ddd without issuing any other command inbetween. Also, are there any other ddd messages besides the one referring to start.S?


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