X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.debugging;h=b0c140d3c6c946bf2b47301e246d47af7f087a47;hb=447db08c956099b3b183886729108bf5b364c4b8;hp=006fb5e392857ad7267227ac1bd4adfacb35d8a3;hpb=c596d1306f5f92f7eab76224d3b049980a14adcb;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/README.debugging b/README.debugging index 006fb5e3..b0c140d3 100644 --- a/README.debugging +++ b/README.debugging @@ -50,19 +50,13 @@ COMPILATION PROBLEMS: * or pass $CC in the environment, like so: csh: setenv CC cc ; ./configure - sh: CC=cc ; ./configure + sh: CC=cc ./configure Before doing this, you'll need to nuke `config.cache'. - If you get errors about not being able to find Motif or Athena (the - Xm/ or Xaw/ header files), and you can't find them on your system, - then your system is horked and your vendor is lame. Perhaps the - problem is that you don't have some kind of ``development option'' - installed. Xt/ and Xaw/ (Athena) are free and available on all - systems; Xm/ (Motif) is available on all commercial systems except - SunOS 4.x and some early releases of Solaris. For Linux and other - free Unixes systems, a Motif clone is available from - http://www.lesstif.org/. + If you get errors about not being able to find Gtk, then perhaps + the problem is that you don't have some kind of ``development + option'' installed. RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: @@ -81,8 +75,8 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: * Is the problem in the driver (`xscreensaver'), the GUI (`xscreensaver-demo'), or in the graphics hacks? - * If the problem is in the GUI, was it built using - Motif, Lesstif, or Athena? Which version? + * If the problem is in the GUI, was it built using Gtk, Motif, + or Lesstif? Which version? * If the problem is in one (or more) of the hacks, which ones? If you're not sure, try running `xscreensaver-demo' to go @@ -152,17 +146,11 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: diagnostics; the `-no-capture' option prevents the data from being displayed on the screensaver window as well.) - You also might want to use the `-timestamp' option, which will - cause the xscreensaver messages to include the time at which - they were printed. - * If the problem is intermittent, you might want to capture the log information to a file and examine it later. For example, you could start it from your login script like this (csh syntax): - ( cd ~/src/xscreensaver/ ; \ - xscreensaver -sync -verbose -timestamp -no-capture \ - >>&LOG & ) + xscreensaver -sync -verbose -no-capture >>& saverlog & * Hackers only: If you're feeling adventurous enough to run gdb on the xscreensaver driver process itself, make sure you've