From 76eaeb0e0d4c849a3df94911e42e84ac9a264c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:20:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update instructions for hacking gnucash

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@9107 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 HACKING | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 209dd48c85..034c538847 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -69,8 +69,30 @@ August 22, 2000
 
 --------------------------------------------------
 
-Starting GnuCash in GDB -- Aug 2003
+Starting Gnucash from the build tree:
+
+To run gnucash from your build tree:
+-- edit ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash and replace gnucash-env with
+   gnucash-build-env
+-- then start gnucash by saying ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash
+-- Make sure you undo this change before installing gnucash
+
+
+Starting GnuCash in GDB
+
+To run gdb on an installed version of gnucash (installed in /usr/local/bin:)
+
+    % gnucash-env gdb /usr/bin/guile
+    [gdb output]
+    % gdb> run -e main -s /usr/local/libexec/gnucash/overrides/gnucash --g-fatal-warnings
+    
+To run gdb on the version in your build tree:
+
+    % gnucash-build-env gdb /usr/bin/guile
+    [gdb output]
+    % gdb> run -e main -s ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash --g-fatal-warnings
+
+
+Using Valgrind with gnucash
+-- run ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash-valgrind
 
-% gnucash-env gdb /usr/bin/guile
-[gdb output]
-% gdb> run -e main -s ./src/bin/overrides/gnucash --g-fatal-warnings