Thanks David for the reply. I think I need to do more ground work of going through how to use gdb. Basically I am java programmer and I was trying out to debug git source using eclipse CDT and as we do in java, I was trying out to set break point but failed with errors as "No line 396 in file "help.c"". And using gdb too I end up with same error.
# (gdb) break help.c:396 # No line 396 in file "help.c". Am I missing something. thanks, mpujari On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 9:34 PM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_ku...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> I am trying to compile git with debug symbols and failed to do so >> (basically I am a noob), can some one direct me to links or mailing >> list (have searched but couldn't find) or doc's so that I can debug >> git using gdb. > > git is compiled with debug symbols by default. ... but: 1) some Git commands are shell-scripts, on which you can't use gdb. 2) some Git commands fork other commands, and then you have to deal with multiple processes (i.e. putting a breakpoint in a piece of code executed by the subprocess won't work if gdb is running on the other one). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
