[xmlroff] Debugging xmlroff

[Tony Graham]

On Sun, Feb 24 2008 21:09:01 +0000, Tony.Graham at menteithconsulting.com wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20 2008 22:07:58 +0000, seefeld at sympatico.ca wrote:
...
>> Is there a way to turn those libfo-CRITICAL messages into actual
>> aborts so I can hook this into a debugger ?
>
> See http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-running.html
>
> If you set G_DEBUG=fatal-critical, xmlroff should abort (though I've
> never tried it).

The correct incantation (for 'bash', at least) is:

   declare -x G_DEBUG=fatal_criticals

You probably also need to have already run 'ulimit -c unlimited' before
you can get a core file.

Regards,


Tony.