Re: [Gnash-dev] plugin debugging

[Bastiaan Jacques]

Benjamin has been working on a logging window that a user can launch
from the GUI. Obviously this won't help much for when Gnash segfaults.
In that case it would be really cool if there were a segfault handler
that submits a stacktrace to us. But I don't know if that last part
should be up to the distribution -- some already have that -- or if we
should take care of that within Gnash.

Bastiaan

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Russ Nelson wrote:

> Hmmm....  I'm wondering if we ought to have the plugin write a shell
> script to /tmp/gnash-plugin.sh which runs gnash -vv and the rest of
> the parameters in a standalone environment.  Just one small file, when
> the plugin gets requested to render something.  That would be the only
> thing it writes by default, so the School Linux folks who are having
> a problem with gnash writing too much stuff to the X server log file,
> wouldn't.
>
> If we do that, we could easily tell people "Run /tmp/gnash-plugin.sh"
> when they have a problem.  It would take care of sending email to
> address@hidden (or somesuch place).
>
> It would also give people, currently frustrated, something to do which
> would be successful.
>
> --
> --my blog is at    http://blog.russnelson.com   | Unregulation is a slippery
> Crynwr sells support for free software  | PGPok | slope to prosperity and
> 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241       | freedom.
> Potsdam, NY 13676-3213  |     Sheepdog          |
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gnash-dev mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev