I need to enable debugging symbols for Bitlbee in order to investigate a bug.
First thing I notice is that I have `libgnutls30` installed but no matching `-dev` exists.
sudo apt install libgnutls28-dev
Nex I notice a mysterious message during configuration: “libgcrypt-config: not found”. This didn’t abort configuration but building still fails.
sudo apt install libgcrypt20-dev
And now it finally builds:
./configure --msn=0 --oscar=0 --twitter=0 --debug=1
I just want Jabber support (and my plugin will provide Mastodon support).
Build and install it:
make && make install
I had to uninstall `bitlbee` and `bitlbee-common`. While they were installed, `systemd` kept listening on port 6667, preventing me from starting my own `bitlbee`.
sudo apt remote bitlbee sudo apt auto-remove
I also had to make a new config directory:
make install-etc
I didn’t have any special settings in my config file. Just to make sure:
sudo diff /usr/local/etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf /etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf
I ended up doing the following:
1. uncomment `User = bitlbee`
2. uncomment `CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt`
At this point, a simple `sudo -u bitlbee ./bitlbee -Dnv` already works but only my Jabber account gets connected as the Bitlbee Mastodon plugin is in the wrong place. In order to recompile it, we need to install the new Bitlbee development stuff:
sudo make install-dev
Now switch to the Bitlbee Mastodon directory:
./configure make sudo make install
And now I’m back in business.
sudo bitlbee -D
Verify that it runs as user `bitlbee` and not `root` (remember that change I made to the config file).
$ ps aux | grep bitlbee bitlbee 8047 0.0 0.0 40404 4536 ? Ss 11:29 0:00 bitlbee -D alex 8055 0.0 0.0 5088 936 pts/0 S+ 11:30 0:00 grep bitlbee
And that means, I can now attach `gdb` to the running process (taking the process id from the output above), set my breakpoint and using `c` to continue.
sudo gdb attach 8047 b mastodon-lib.c:789 c
Sadly, Bitlbee’s control flow is too hard to fathom for me. The bug remains unresolved.
Anyway... Deploying!
sudo make install-systemd sudo systemctl unmask bitlbee sudo systemctl enable bitlbee sudo systemctl start bitlbee
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