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<p>On Saturday 29 November 2008 12:22:50 am Ken Moffat wrote:</p>
<p>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0000, b-vol wrote:</p>
<p>> > there is no strace on my system. I have checked the list of binaries in</p>
<p>> > gcc and glibc in the cblfs book and could not find an strace (that</p>
<p>> > does not mean it s should be there). However there is an xtrace under</p>
<p>> > glibC. This calls for xterm I have not yet installed X-windows.</p>
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<p>> It's a debugging tool - strace system calls and signals.</p>
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<p>> Freshmeat is pointing to a very old version, but hopefully you can</p>
<p>> access it at</p>
<p>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/strace/strace-4.5.18.tar.bz</p>
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<p>> On non-multilib, just CMMI. On multilib, configure with CC="gcc</p>
<p>> ${BUILD64}" after ensuring BUILD64 is set (-m64 on my arches, but</p>
<p>> YMMV). Maybe it's in cblfs. Don't forget to read the man page.</p>
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<p>> You will often (particularly on graphical apps which spend most of</p>
<p>> the time waiting for input) get a *lot* of output from it - the</p>
<p>> syntax highlighting and general colour in 'view' seem to make it</p>
<p>> a bit less impenetrable (if you are comfortable with your vim</p>
<p>> colours).</p>
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<p>> ĸen</p>
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<p><span style="font-style:italic">I installed kbd-1.14.1 and the problem went away. Thanks for all your help</span></p>
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