[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8.3-rc1 Now Available

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 26 January 2011 14:57:10 Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Asterisk Development Team
> 
> <asteriskteam at digium.com> wrote:
> >  * This version of Asterisk includes the new Compiler Flags option
> >   BETTER_BACKTRACES which uses libbfd to search for better symbol
> > information
> >   within both the Asterisk binary, as well as loaded modules, to
> > assist when using inline backtraces to track down problems.
> >   (Patched by tilghman)
> 
> From what I see, enabling BETTER_BACKTRACES also requires enabling
> developer mode.  Is there something else enabled by developer mode
> that is required by the BETTER_BACKTRACES feature or could the
> BETTER_BACKTRACES be made a normal compilation flag?

I don't see a problem with that.  However, there's an issue open in the
tracker where somebody had a problem with enabling it on a Red Hat derived
distribution, so that should probably be resolved, first.

https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18494

-- 
Tilghman