diff options
| author | Max Kellermann <max@musicpd.org> | 2018-11-06 22:38:24 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Max Kellermann <max@musicpd.org> | 2018-11-06 22:38:24 +0100 |
| commit | 04640288721763adc408ee4309af6c8c4954d051 (patch) | |
| tree | d03249c8ee35621839cef902bc9d15ac5b660488 /doc | |
| parent | 98985c03b0369327e659793b514659e3619c0f39 (diff) | |
doc/user.rst: add information about debug build
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user.rst b/doc/user.rst index e9bd3e960..50e4e376b 100644 --- a/doc/user.rst +++ b/doc/user.rst @@ -969,6 +969,10 @@ A crash bug report needs to contain a "backtrace". First of all, your :program:`MPD` executable must not be "stripped" (i.e. debug information deleted). The executables shipped with Linux distributions are usually stripped, but some have so-called "debug" packages (package mpd-dbg or mpd-dbgsym on Debian, mpd-debug on other distributions). Make sure this package is installed. +If you built :program:`MPD` from sources, please recompile with Meson +option ":code:`--buildtype=debug -Db_ndebug=false`", because this will +add more helpful information to the backtrace. + You can extract the backtrace from a core dump, or by running :program:`MPD` in a debugger, e.g.: .. code-block:: none |