From: José Fonseca <jfonseca@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:48:22 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Aggregate all info on debugging into a single place.
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=apitrace;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c101c9efbb0f7ef0aae37a43f746e1466c669ee

Aggregate all info on debugging into a single place.
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diff --git a/BUGS.markdown b/BUGS.markdown
index 56049c1..d8258a7 100644
--- a/BUGS.markdown
+++ b/BUGS.markdown
@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ Linux/MacOSX
 ------------
 
 Please rebuild apitrace with debugging information, by passing
-`-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug` to cmake.
+`-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug` to cmake, or editing its value in `CMakeCache.txt`
+and rebuilding.
 
 To obtain a stack back-trace, run the application with gdb from a terminal:
 
@@ -185,6 +186,10 @@ To obtain a stack back-trace, run the application with gdb from a terminal:
     ...
     (gdb) bt
 
+On Linux, to trace an application inside gdb the `LD_PRELOAD` environment
+variable should be set from within gdb like:
+
+    gdb --ex 'set exec-wrapper env LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/glxtrace.so' --args application arg1 ...
 
 See also more detailed and Distro specific instructions:
 
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 5f97d87..f699914 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -145,10 +145,6 @@ If you are an application developer, you can avoid this either by linking with
 See the `ld.so` man page for more information about `LD_PRELOAD` and
 `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` environment flags.
 
-To trace the application inside gdb, invoke gdb as:
-
-    gdb --ex 'set exec-wrapper env LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/glxtrace.so' --args /path/to/application
-
 ### Android ###
 
 To trace standalone native OpenGL ES applications, use