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VisIt - Visualization and Data Analysis for Mesh-based Scientific Data
https://visit.llnl.gov
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Can we install debug versions of VisIt in /usr/gapps at LLNL #19872

Open markcmiller86 opened 2 days ago

markcmiller86 commented 2 days ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

When we are encountering hard to diagnose issues with VisIt (like current issues with rzhound displaying back to macOS via X), it would be nice to be able to set breakpoints and look at stack dumps as well as get core dumps. We can't do that with production installs of VisIt though.

So, would be be too much to ask to have debug installs (available only to VisIt developers) there as well perhaps in something like /usr/gapps/visit/<ver>/debug? We might not often use it but when it is available, I think it would be truly helpful.

JustinPrivitera commented 2 days ago

Is it not possible to repro the issue on the current 3.4RC branch?

JustinPrivitera commented 2 days ago

Not that our gdb/debugging tools work all that well to begin with...