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| author | Samuel Williams <samuel.williams@oriontransfer.co.nz> | 2023-08-26 09:59:45 +1200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-08-26 09:59:45 +1200 |
| commit | b2d1c720ece67b110ab4ade6b8c9f3b640216c8a (patch) | |
| tree | 330234c4af92556dd20d802ff8cd95663dcf2edf /doc | |
| parent | 439f069b4b421964dab39b0a01e0afdae89ea26c (diff) | |
Add documentation regarding how to build Ruby for debugging. (#8290)
Co-authored-by: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
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Notes:
Merged-By: ioquatix <samuel@codeotaku.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing/building_ruby.md | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/contributing/building_ruby.md b/doc/contributing/building_ruby.md index 02efb2384f..b96fa4bc0b 100644 --- a/doc/contributing/building_ruby.md +++ b/doc/contributing/building_ruby.md @@ -157,6 +157,14 @@ with the Ruby script you'd like to run. You can use the following make targets: * `make lldb-ruby`: Runs `test.rb` using Ruby in lldb * `make gdb-ruby`: Runs `test.rb` using Ruby in gdb +### Compiling for Debugging + +You should configure Ruby without optimization and other flags that may interfere with debugging: + +``` shell +./configure --enable-debug-env optflags="-O0 -fno-omit-frame-pointer" +``` + ### Building with Address Sanitizer Using the address sanitizer is a great way to detect memory issues. |