From a2779dd768f89601dab57ef5d8e3eaecbce12d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 21:43:38 +0200
Subject: document gdb stuff

---
 docs/CONTRIBUTING | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/CONTRIBUTING')

diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTING b/docs/CONTRIBUTING
index 86655dd..74d1b36 100644
--- a/docs/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -37,3 +37,11 @@ So ideally, all contributors develop in their experimental, that gets merged int
 
 ### MEMORY LEAK CHECKING
     valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full ./uzbl
+
+### DEBUGGING / BACKTRACES
+
+* compile with -ggdb (enabled by default on experimental tree)
+* run: `gdb ./uzbl`
+* `(gdb) run -c /path/to/config`
+* `bt` if it segfaults to see a backtrace
+* you'll find more info on the interwebs
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