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authorJohn Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>2009-11-21 02:36:17 -0500
committerJohn Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>2009-11-21 02:36:17 -0500
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===============================================================================
- F.A.Q.
+ IF YOU HAVE CONFIGURE OR BUILD PROBLEMS
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+The first order of business if acprep update doesn't work is to find out where
+things went wrong. So follow these steps to produce a bug report I can track
+down easily:
+
+ $ ./acprep --debug update # shows what acprep was thinking
+ $ <edit config.log> # shows what configure was thinking
+
+With the contents of config.log, and the output from acprep --debug update,
+it's usually fairly obvious where things have gone astray.
+
+===============================================================================
+
+ F.A.Q.
- Q: The build fails saying it can't find utf8.h
@@ -65,6 +77,14 @@ available for testing and more useful bug reports.
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+ - Q: I'm seeing a segfault deep inside the boost_regex code!
+
+ A: Actually, the real segfault is in libstdc++'s facet code. It's being
+ caused by using a debug Boost with a non-debug build of Ledger, or
+ vice-versa.
+
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
- Q: Something else fails, or Ledger crashes on startup
A: This, I am most interested in hearing about. Please e-mail me a copy of
@@ -98,5 +118,3 @@ available for testing and more useful bug reports.
A: This can happen for the same reason as above. It can also happen if you
have ICU support enabled. This is a bug I'm still trying to track down.
-
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