Before reporting a problem with gnokii make sure that problem still exists
with current gnokii release (refer to http://www.gnokii.org/ to find out the
most recent version) or even with current CVS version. If gnokii version
provided by your distribution please contact the package maintainer to
upgrade it.

When you report some problems with gnokii please attach the following
information:
 - phone model
 - connection type (irda/cable with its type)
 - gnokii version (gnokii --version) along with source for it: cvs,
tarball, binary package
 - edit you gnokiirc and enable debugging, e.g.:
    [logging]
    debug = on
   and attach gzipped output to the email:
    (x)gnokii(d) [parameters] 2>errfile

It would be good if you name the problem in the subject if possible and
name if it meets gnokii, xgnokii or gnokiid binaries or gnokii as a whole.

(from Pawel Kot's mailing to gnokii mailing list).

Send resulting report to gnokii-users@nongnu.org.

If you want to debug yourself, by default the CVS version adds -g to CFLAGS
when generating Makefile.global and the defines needed to print debug
messages when generating include/config.h then in your gnokiirc set debug=on
to see messages about libgnokii or gnokii and xdebug=on to see messages
about xgnokii or smsd.
At configure time you may add --disable-shared to build statically linked
versions that are easier to deal with.
make clean; make and then you can make install or run the programs from their
directory if they are statically linked: 
 gnokii/gnokii
 xgnokii/xgnokii
