A standard installation of Enlightenment or EFL is compiled without debug symbols, meaning that debugging tools are unable to extract much information. In order that a backtrace, Valgrind or any any other collection method provides good-quality information the program must be recompiled with debugging symbols activated.
Debugging symbols can be added using the -g
flag during compilation. If you have already configured your own custom compiler flags you will need to add -g
to them. If you do not use any custom compiler flags you can set sensible defaults for debugging with the following command:
export CFLAGS="-O -march=native -g"
Recompile each of the individual libraries, and Enlightenment itself if required, with:
make clean distclean
./autogen.sh
make
make install
If your build environment has a different workflow, alter the above steps accordingly while remembering to retain the distclean
option.