[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#603986: qgis crashes on startup on PowerPC

[Steve Singer]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:47:20 -0500
> Steve <ssinger_pg at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> If I build the qgis .deb files from source on my machine I don't get the
>> crash but the debs from the repository always crash.
>>
>> Is it possible to force a rebuild of the .debs in testing?
>
> Interesting, I cannot reproduce it, always crash with
>  - packages from repository
>  - packages built with pbuilder (sid)
>  - packages built with pbuilder (squeeze)
>  - source from git, built with pbuilder (sid)
>  - source from git, built with pbuilder (squeeze)
>
> Steve, how do you build your deb files?
>

I think I did

git clone http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/qgis/qgis.git
cd qgis.git
fakeroot debian/rules binary

or something similar set of steps calling debian/rules directly and not 
using pbuilder.

Can you build .debs with debugging symbols? That is what I tried first, only 
to discover that I didn't get the crash.   Can you build .debs with debug 
symbols? If so I don't mind trying to look through them with gdb.


> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
> http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
>