[EMAIL PROTECTED] fmonkey]$ gdb pgadmin3
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb)
There is a debuginfo package installed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fmonkey]$ rpm -qa pgadmin3* pgadmin3-1.1.0-cvs20031014 pgadmin3-debuginfo-1.1.0-cvs20031014 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fmonkey]$
and the debuginfo file exists:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fmonkey]$ ls -l /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pgadmin3.debug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1284116 Oct 21 09:00 /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pgadmin3.debug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fmonkey]$
Running gdb, specifying the symbol file explicitly doesn't change the behavior. Loooking at the SPEC file, I see that 'configure' is run with the '--enable-debug' option, but that later int he SPEC file, the following command is run:
strip --strip-debug %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/%{name}
Removing this command from the SPEC file allows the RPM to build with the proper debug information. I don't know how the old RH systems work, but on mine, the /usr/bin/pgadmin3 file gets stripped, and all the debug information gets stored in a separate file, so we get the benefit of the stripped executable, but the advantage of being able to distribute a pgadmin3-debuginfo RPM for debugging users.
ahp
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