On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:05:28PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> > First of all, this is wrong; do not put /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib in the
> > library path. GDB loads libraries from /usr/lib/debug/{lib/,usr/lib/}
> > automatically. They contain debug information, but no symbols.
>
> Thank you for the info ! But I'm curious why they change gdb behaviour
> if they contain no symbol and why
>
> nm /usr/lib/debug/libc-2.3.5.so
>
> outputs a long list of symbols.
You can put /usr/lib/debug in the path; that's one set of debug
libraries. The ones in /usr/lib/debug/lib and /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib
are different, though. They'll still have a long list of symbols - but
only the symbols, none of the code is there.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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