How to keep .c files from devel install for debugging?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2010-07-29 21:00 , William Knight wrote:
> Ok. Just to be more clear, what I'm talking about is stepping in a
> debugger like gdb through the source code of an application and then
> into the source code of a library linked with that application. For
> example, if I created a gtk app and wanted to step into the source
> code of gtk_init(), then presumably I would need the file gtkmain.c
> somewhere in the path of the debugger.

First of all you would need the library to be compiled with debug
symbols. MacPorts does not do this, nor does it offer a generalized way
to do so.

Also on Mac OS X unlike on other systems debug symbols are not being
stored in the libraries itself but in extra .dSYM directories. Those
live in the source tree only next to the object files and are required
in addition to the source in order to debug the library.

Rainer