On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 23:03, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> Darren Freeman wrote:
> > 
> > One other thing - an earlier version included the output of lyx
> > --version in the trace, which provided a lot of useful info. Shouldn't
> > it go back? Esp. now that zipping is included.
> 
> Oops, have I removed that? Was this there in one of your earlier versions
> of the script? Sorry then, was not my intention.

I think it disappeared between 0.1 and 0.2, the major rework.

> The --version info is indeed very useful and should go into the trace info
> as well. Can you add that?

OK I'll work on 0.3b soon and do the little things we've discussed

> > The more we cram into the trace the better.
> 
> Hmm, you may run a bit too fast here. You know, in some specific cases
> even the config.log or config.h contains important information. But
> one has to draw a line and let the script be used first. It will then
> appear what's missing and what needs to be added. Don't cram too much
> in it at this stage.

... or provide clever command-line options that can be requested by
whoever is bugfixing to whoever is running lyxdbg =) Why not have a few
trace profiles to choose from? Each one specifies what kinds of info to
probe, like including the files you mention, or what install of binutils
you use, or what your xconfig says, what the permissions are in the lyx
build dir (run ls -Rla lyx-devel).. etc..

> Cheers,
> Rob.

Darren

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