[kaffe] Problem when trying to run in debug mode

Jim Pick jim@kaffe.org
04 May 2002 07:45:11 -0700


I just read the rest of the thread - I'll look at Patrick's patch, which
might be a better way to fix it.

Cheers,

 - Jim

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 07:40, Jim Pick wrote:
> That was a new "feature" that was added because the wrapper script
> around kaffe was writing the debug script to /tmp (which was a potential
> security hazard, if some other user created a symlink in /tmp).
> 
> What you now need to do is to explicity specify where the temporary
> debugging script file is to be created by exporting an environment
> variable KAFFE_DEBUG_TEMPFILE (set it to the name of file somewhere).
> 
> I'll make a point of documenting this better somewhere.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  - Jim
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 04:22, Parthasarathy G wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the help, now I am able to compile the bleeding version.
> > 
> > I am trying to run Kaffe in debugger mode :-
> > 1. executed ./configure --prefix=<dir name> --enable-xdebugging
> > 2. After that did make followed by make install.
> > 3. Then set the KAFFE_DEBUG flag to gdb by command
> > export KAFFE_DEBUG =gdb
> > 4. Now, even if I give java/javac command It give "KAFFE_DEBUG_TEMPFILE not
> > set" as output.
> > 
> > What could be the reason for this problem?
> > 
> > Partha
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