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[Thomas Pointhuber <thomas.pointhuber@xxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

thanks for reminder. I implemented a simple compile time switch to allow
maintainers to enable/disable crash reporting.

Regards, Thomas

Am 25.09.18 um 18:38 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
> Thomas,
> 
> I looked at your branch and it look like you haven't made your debug
> report code a build option yet.  This will definitely have to be done in
> order to merger this because we cannot guarantee full core dump reports
> so packagers will have to be able to build without the reporting in some
> cases.  I know it's less than ideal but unless you can ensure that a
> full crash dump can be included as part of the report, I see what other
> choice there is.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 9/22/2018 5:02 AM, Thomas Pointhuber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I fixed the mysn bug on my branch:
>> * https://github.com/pointhi/kicad-source-mirror/tree/crash_report
>>
>> Allowing people to enable/disable this feature sounds like a good idea.
>>
>> I tried gcore on linux to create coredumps of an running process, but
>> because it needs root privileges it cannot simply be integrated into the
>> reporter (it would be possible with PolKit I think).
>>
>> There also exists https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-coredumper
>> but it seems to be broken on newer linux systems (according to
>> stackoverflow)
>>
>> Regards, Thomas
>>
>> Am 22.09.18 um 04:05 schrieb Seth Hillbrand:
>>> Hi Simon-
>>>
>>> Am Fr., 21. Sep. 2018 um 18:24 Uhr schrieb Simon Richter
>>> <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>>:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     On 22.09.2018 02:12, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>>>
>>>     >>    It will need a way to turn it off.
>>>
>>>     > Say a command-line switch? e.g --disable-crashreporter
>>>
>>>     The distro maintainers probably need a compile time option for apport,
>>>     I'd prefer that as well because I don't have to remember it when
>>>     starting.
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, how about a CMAKE flag KICAD_CRASHREPORTER_DEFAULT=OFF/ON?  Then we
>>> have two command line flags
>>> --enable-crashreporter/--disable-crashreporter to override the default.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> -S
>>>
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