hi guys,

I have two questions about building koffice on linux. I downloaded the source package and ran a configure --enable-debug=full on the top directory and it made a few Makefiles in several directories included the top one. Since I'm only interested in kword ( for now) and I only run the Makefile inside the kword directory, I expect the kword release and debug build to be located here. But I only see a release version of it and on top of that the dependancies aren't build correctly ( aren't build at all) I have to manually cd to the directory and run an make for every lib file.
Koffice 1.6.3 on linux fedora 10.

If you want to have debug build but in mode RelWithDebInfo, you can do this to install debug libs in Fedora:

su -
debuginfo-install koffice-kword

Just an option not to compile it..

LukasT,

thanks for replying, but I forgot to mention that I've already installed
koffice-debuginfo-1.6.3-24.20090306svn.fc10.i386 and unfortunately the command you supplied did not succeed. ( see output )

[admin@lorentz:~/koffice-1.6.3]$sudo debuginfo-install koffice-word
[sudo] password for admin:
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00
enabling fedora-debuginfo
Reading repository metadata in from local files
fedora-debuginfo | 2.2 kB 00:00
fedora-debuginfo/primary_db | 1.0 MB 00:02
enabling updates-debuginfo
Reading repository metadata in from local files
updates-debuginfo | 2.6 kB 00:00
updates-debuginfo/primary_db | 554 kB 00:01
No debuginfo packages available to install

If you already have debuginfo, then you don't need anything else.

Why are you trying to compile KOffice 1.6 in debugfull? What is your goal?

well, actually I'm not trying to build the whole koffice suite but just kword. I want to debug a kword session and see how the code flows, because I need to do something simular. I always thought that it would be straight forward 1. configure with flags 2. make 3. debug a session.

Why don't you do that with kword 2.x ? You can find build instructions here: http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title ... ng_KOffice as well as instructions on how to compile only one specific application. (I think there was a similar configure option for 1.6, but I don't remember what it was)

thank you for the advice. I followed it exactly like on the site is stated, but this is what I got

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kword(9898)/koffice (lib komain) KoDocument::readNativeService: "kwordpart.desktop"  found.
kword(9898)/koffice (lib komain) KoDocumentEntry::createDoc: "QLibrary::load_sys: Cannot load /home/admin/.kde4/lib/libkwordpart.so (libkwordprivate.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"


the libkwordpart.so is in my /home/admin/.kde4/lib/ directory and I added this directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the kword-shell script. Why can't it be found, it's there!


Edit:I did not install it yet, but that should be a problem......I guess

you also need to set KDEDIRS and run kbuildsycoca4: http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title ... plications

OK, I'm following the link exactly now on a open Suse machine ( I have also a fedora 10 machine). But this "zypper si -d koffice-devel" does not work.

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> zypper si -d koffice-devel

Reading installed packages...
Loading repository data...
Source package 'koffice-devel' not found.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.


I did a ccmake . and turned of most of the packages ( except kword and a few others) and I supplied the "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" option with "Debug Release".

Again I didn't install ( so no make install yet ), but then again I'm guessing that I should not have to since I want to change the code and build it again and test it. So installing it won't be necessary.....am I right??

But still the error from above and were is my debug version ?

update: "ldd kword" tells me that all the library files are found

output of "strace kword"

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open("/home/admin/koffice-2.0.2/lib/libkwordprivate.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/home/admin/koffice-2.0.2/lib", 0xbfe12e08) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.1/lib/libkwordprivate.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 16
fstat64(16, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=140246, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 140246, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 16, 0) = 0xb56b6000
close(16)                               = 0
open("/lib/libkwordprivate.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libkwordprivate.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libkwordprivate.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
munmap(0xb56b6000, 140246)              = 0
munmap(0xb4100000, 8220)                = 0
stat64("/home/admin/.kde4/lib/libkwordpart.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=93497, ...}) = 0
write(2, "kword(31237)/koffice (lib komain"..., 207kword(31237)/koffice (lib komain) KoDocumentEntry::createDoc: "Cannot load library /home/admin/.kde4/lib/libkwordpart.so: (libkwordprivate.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
) = 207



Where is this file and why doesn't it get created when I do a "make -j 8 kword"?

OK, it seemed that the libkwordprivate.so.5 was build when I did a "make -j 8 kword" in the top build directory. So I did a make in the kword directory, which did result in a libkwordprivate.so.5 in the $HOME/build/lib directory. But now I get

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~/koffice-2.0/build/kword/part ]$ ./kword.shell
kword(12352)/koffice (lib komain) KoDocument::readNativeService: "kwordpart.desktop"  found.
kword: symbol lookup error: /home/admin/koffice-2.0/build/lib/./libkomain.so.5: undefined symbol: _Z13qFlagLocationPKc


and I get a fatal error when running kword

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This backtrace appears to be of no use.
This is probably because your packages are built in a way which prevents creation of proper backtraces, or the stack frame was seriously corrupted in the crash.

[?1034h[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
0xffffe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xb5a66700 (LWP 12353))]

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb5a66700 (LWP 12353)):
#0  0xffffe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb675de60 in nanosleep () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb675dc6e in sleep () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0xb710661a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
#4  0xb710704c in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
#5  <signal handler called>
#6  QString::operator= (this=0xbfacb378, other=@0x35) at tools/qstring.cpp:1129
#7  0xb71bcb33 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
#8  0xb71ac078 in KXMLGUIClient::findMostRecentXMLFile(QStringList const&, QString&) () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5
#9  0xb6e70972 in KoMainWindow::KoMainWindow(KComponentData const&) () from /home/admin/koffice-2.0/build/lib/libkomain.so.5
#10 0xb6e7848d in KoApplication::start() () from /home/admin/koffice-2.0/build/lib/libkomain.so.5
#11 0xb80b5e23 in kdemain () from /home/admin/koffice-2.0/build/lib/libkdeinit4_kword.so
#12 0x080487e6 in main ()


EUREKA !! it works . I did an install and added the install directory to the KDEDIRS environment variable and ran kbuildsycoca4. But one question though : how do I get a debug version with debug flags?

thank you, guys.

With the help of the ccmake tool I am now able to get a debug build, just put Debug after the Build type.

Great ! Indeed the debug option is missing from the wiki, I am going to add that. Have fun with kword

thanks cyrille for your help.