Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003, 13:14:30 Uhr MET, schrieb Olav Vitters:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:46:07AM +0200, G�tz Waschk wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003, 05:30:22 Uhr MET, schrieb David Walser:
> > > Just a shot in the dark, but does it working using gdb with the -s
> > > option and passing the debug file to the -s flag? Like gdb
> > > /usr/bin/foo -s /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/foo.debug or something like
> > > that.
> > this doesn't seem to work. I've tried the following with swf_play from
> > the swfdec package:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]$ gdb /usr/bin/swf_play -s
> > /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/swf_play.debug
> > (gdb) file /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/swf_play.debug
> > Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/swf_play.debug...Can't read symbols
> > from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/swf_play.debug: File truncated
> Rebuild the rpm with DONT_STRIP=1.
I know that I could do that. But I thought the reason for the -debug
packages was to give the ability to debug without having to rebuild
the package.
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