segmentation fault in xfce 4.2.1.1 - gentoo

[Robert Kurowski]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:47:57 +0200
Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:

> And no, this is no a known issue. Could you try and get a backtrace
from the
> crash with gdb? In a terminal, when xfce4-panel is not running, type:
> 
>  $ gdb xfce4-panel
> gdb> run
>  [wait for the crash]
> gdb> bt
>  [output of backtrace]

I'm just courius. I see such instructions many times, for Fedora, SuSE,
Gentoo etc users. So that means packages installed are compiled with
debug symbols. What's the point in binary packages?

If I want to test new software for bugs it's reasonable but somehow
"stable" software?

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Robert 'koorek' Kurowski	Jabber:	koorek at pld-linux.org