[LAD] Looking for some jackd debugging help

[John Rigg]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:38:46PM -0700, Ethan Funk wrote:
> I would like to run jackd in gdb so I can see where it is failing, but
> I am unsure how to build it without breaking my system's installed jack
> package, which is of course built without debugging enabled.

You could try installing the compiled version over the existing
package files. On Debian I add the following to the ./waf configure
command when I want to do this:

--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Substitute the libdir path relevant for your distro
if not Debian based.

John