X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.debugging;h=49755066102258ab23555e7b5fa8d9c36c68db87;hp=31364dbffbc354c330ba5ca1ae4fe63943d0a6c5;hb=06e9a7886a77cad92f9ddbc169d6d199a4d8b76d;hpb=c31d10b6605cd8dc1a7b61fef4256f06198767e5

diff --git a/README.debugging b/README.debugging
index 31364dbf..49755066 100644
--- a/README.debugging
+++ b/README.debugging
@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ COMPILATION PROBLEMS:
 
     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,
+    If you get errors about not being able to find Motif or Gtk (the
+    Xm/ or gtk/ 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
+    installed.  Xt/is free and available on all systems; Xm/ (Motif)
+    is available on all commercial systems except SunOS 4.x and some
+    early releases of Solaris.  Linux and other free Unixes systems
+    usually come with Gtk, but a Motif clone is also available from
     http://www.lesstif.org/.
 
 RUN-TIME PROBLEMS:
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ 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 the it built using
-           Motif, Lesstif, or Athena?  Which version?
+        *  If the problem is in the GUI, was it built using
+           Motif, Lesstif, or Gtk?  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
@@ -118,8 +118,18 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS:
               where
 
            If the bottom few lines of the output don't include the functions
-	   `main_loop()' and `main()', then something's wrong: are you sure
-           the core file came from that program?
+           `main_loop()' and `main()', then something went wrong, and the
+           core file is bogus.  If the lines it prints out contain only
+           question marks, then the core file is bogus.  Are you sure the
+           core file came from that program?  Did you compile with -g, as
+           explained above?  If you don't compile with -g, the core file
+           won't have any information in it.
+
+           Never ever ever mail me (or anyone) a core file.  They are huge,
+           and are only meaningful on the machine that generated them, with
+           the exact executable that generated them, neither of which anyone
+           but you has access to.  Don't mail me a core file unless you're
+           also planning on mailing me your computer.
 
         *  If it gets an X error, where did it come from?  Run
            xscreensaver with the `-sync' command-line option.  When `-sync'