How to dump core on crash?

[Alan DeKok]

Martin Pauly <pauly at hrz.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
> sorry for the long delays, I was on vacation last week.
> I got a real core dump now, but the gdb output doesn't look
> very interesting. I suppose I am using a stripped binary;

  Yup.  The default install is to strip the binaries.

> the only thing I changed in debian/rules was to add 
> '--disable-shared'. So I'm afraid this might deprive the 
> debugger of some important information. 

  That shouldn't matter.

> #4  0x081515e0 in ?? ()
> ...
> [omitting 2000 lines of this kind]

  That looks suspiciously like a stacvk overflow.  Maybe there's an
infinite recursion problem somewhere?

  Alan DeKok.