Bug 128219

Summary: Document UNX-specific --record --backtrace --strace --valgrind arguments defined/handled in shell script
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: LibreOfficiant, olivier.hallot, xiscofauli
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: target:6.4.0
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:

Description Mike Kaganski 2019-10-17 19:02:05 UTC
soffice.sh defines some debugging command-line options (that aren't handled by soffice.bin, but processed in the script itself) [1]:

--record
--backtrace
--strace
--valgrind

These should be documented: possibly in help [2], or in wiki [3].

[1] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/desktop/scripts/soffice.sh?r=35463d88
[2] https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/start_parameters.html
[3] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/Debug_Information
Comment 1 Xisco FaulĂ­ 2019-10-22 09:58:34 UTC
Moving to NEW
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2019-11-07 13:33:53 UTC
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/4ee056ae84bb0a30a64c43afda7f4d3f0bce522d

tdf#128219 Extra start params for debugging