Pre-built Debug Builds easier to access for testers (2nd try)

[Kunda1]

Continuing where we left off https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 7&p=156918
How can we achieve this without creating more work for the packaging team ?

Basically, automating (using TravisCI) to generate full symbol builds for debugging is becoming more essential everyday as we have more people willing to jump in, test and debug. I recently read over on the OSE wiki that ruslan (the creator of the OSE piping WB and contributor to the Flamingo WB) was having issues debugging FC (link) He writes

I tried to find out how to debug FreeCAD. It just does not work . FreeCAD crashed. How I suppose to teach someone to program under these conditions?

If it's issues with Travis maybe we can take some of the funds we have in bountysource and purchase a monthly travisCI plan so we get access to extended build times and whatever other amenities come with that...?

We also need a better Debugging tutorial to captivate users to jump in the deep end of development. Right now we provide them with a superficial and tooth-less (no debug symbols) technique.

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Related thread:
Discussion: Framework for Automating Builds (buildbot etc..)

[rus]

Hallo @Kunda1,

thank you for your support. I didnt know you read my frustated OSE-log .

In OSE we want to teach more people to become FreeCAD developers. A proper debugging is very important to me, because lack of it slows down the development process and makes it harder to learn and harder to teach FreeCAD development.

I have tried once more with instructions from https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.p ... =Debugging and got more information
about the issue on my computer

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Thread 1 "freecad" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffedd23fcb in XML_SetHashSalt ()[/url]  
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1

It looks like it is a known problem
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 8&start=10
I hope to finde a solution...

[Kunda1]

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Thread 1 "freecad" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffedd23fcb in XML_SetHashSalt ()[/url] Un 
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1

Is this the expat version bug ? I think you need to downgrade expat to get this to work. I need to search the forums/tracker

[rus]

I think, it is.

This two lines in the console crash freecad:

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from xml.dom import minidom
minidom.parseString("")

[Kunda1]

I think, it is.

This two lines in the console crash freecad:

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from xml.dom import minidom
minidom.parseString("")

Check out https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=29913

[rus]

IT WORKS !!!
Thank you @Kunda1!

[rus]

Check out https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=29913

IT WORKS!!!
Thank you very much!

[Kunda1]

Maybe this can be added to the buildbot idea ?